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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