MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions

[John Bailey]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: MDDM: Ch 34 - Notes and Questions
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:26:07 +1100
>I had a couple of questions:
>
>The land about the Harlands' farm is "a region of mariform grades". (332.5)
>What's "mariform"?
>

At first I thought it was something like variform but with a watery bent, ie 
marine, or something, perhaps it's prone to flooding? But apparently 
mariform is a term in it's own right, though I've only found two people to 
have ever used it in history, and that's a couple of Low Countries mystics, 
the Venerable Michael of St Augustine (d. 1684) and the Venerable Mary of St 
Teresa Petijt/Petyt (d. 1677). I believe it's something to do with the 
Carmelites, and the word refers to the Virgin Mary, and the belief that the 
faithful should become a new Mary.


>Anything particularly noteworthy about "Fermat's Last Theorem"? (336.1)
>

Good roundup of the above at...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat%27s_last_theorem.html

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