MDDM Ch. 61
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Sun Jul 7 08:01:55 CDT 2002
599.6 "Leyden Battery"
http://www.fis.uc.pt/museu/125ing.HTM
599.16 "the Deep Woods" ?
Perhaps: http://www.deepwoods.org/
599.14 "He's long known that Leadership is not his best Quality." As the
narrative thus far has amply demonstrated.
600.10 "*The Turkish Spy*" ?
600.13 "Hugh Crawfford ... the Tuscaroras" ?
http://sixnations.buffnet.net/
http://tuscaroras.com/
600.19 "a writing call'd Ogham, invented by Hu Gadarn the Mighty"
http://ogham.lyberty.com/oghamintro.html
http://ogham.lyberty.com/
http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/n037.html
http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ogmharc.html
Hu Gadarn, also known as Cernunnos: "A Celtic god whose physical attributes
came to be applied to those of Satan. Known as the Horned God and as Hu
Gadarn, Cernunnos was the god of nature, astral planes, virility, fertility,
animals, sex, the underworld, reincarnation, and shamanism."
Cf. those "sightings of the Supernumerary Figure" (pp. 604-5)
http://www.sacredfire.net/gods.html
http://shanmonster.bla-bla.com/witch/deities/cernunnos.html
601.11 "Sideling Hill"
http://www.geol.umd.edu/HUTTON/sideling.html
601.20 "If the Black Boys so easily had their way with the British Regulars
at Shippensburg" ?
http://www.borough.shippensburg.pa.us/
Again, who are "the Black Boys"? (Cf. 490.10-11)
602.7 the Flow of *Chee* ... insertions of Gold Needles"
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/courses/comm240/spring2000/jwilson/
602. 25 "Fluxions ... Toroid"
fluxion n. less common word for "flux" = flow or discharge; continuous
change, instability [16th C. from Latin *fluxió* a flowing]
toroid n. (Geometry) 1. a surface generated by rotating a closed plane curve
about a coplanar line that does not intersect the curve 2. the solid
enclosed by such a surface
http://www.netbase.org/e~scape/e~mus14.htm
http://www.ys.sk/t/t0006.php
602.36 "Cloud-berry Flip"
http://www.tihlde.org/~frodeb/Cloudberries.html
flip: any alcoholic drink containing beaten egg
603.6 "Hollow Earth"
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/hollow.htm
http://www.hollow-earth.org/welcome.html
http://skepdic.com/hollowearth.html
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/holearth.html
603.25 "Mr. Birch" ?
605.18 "the Old Gentleman" i.e. Satan (?)
605.30 "Brother Pritchard" ?
NB the story of Satan's lawsuit (605-7), again bringing Gaddis's _A Frolic
of His Own_ to mind
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Unattributed dialogue (pp. 601-4)
601.1 Professor Voam
601.8 Dixon
601.9 Captain Shelby
601.12 Captain Shelby
601.33 Captain Shelby
602.4 Captain Zhang
602.11 Mason
602.14 Captain Shelby
602.23 Mason
602.24 Dixon
602.31 Dixon
603.14 Mason
603.21 Dixon
603.22 Mason
604.10 Captain Zhang
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