MDDM Ch. 40 Summary, Notes, Questions

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, with what little time/patience I have left ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 402.19 "Quotha"  interjection (Archaic) an
> expression of mild sarcasm, used in picking up a
> word or phrase used by someone else: "Art thou mad?
> Mad, quotha! I am more sane than thou." [16th C.
> from *quoth a* quoth he]
> 
> So, what word is being picked up? Is it, perhaps,
> "independent"?

Think, rather, "A Dew-Drop," et al.  Then, "A
Dew-Drop, trembling blah blah blah?  She strikes me as
a rather resourceful young woman, independent in her
ways."  He's not entirely naive here ...
 
> 403.4 "If he reads the Papers, he knows what we are
> ... "  What are they? Revolutionaries? Petty
> criminals? Fugitives? Beatniks?

I'm thinking characters from a comic strip, or a comic
book superhero team, though I can't quite come up with
anything just yet.  I'm convinced there are sepcific
referents here, but ...

> 403.14 "A Field-Marshal's Dream."
> 
> Perhaps (?) a reference to:
> 
> http://www.lihistory.com/histpast/past0511.htm

"... commanding a View, in fact, of all the Docking
along Water-Street, and, more obliquely, of the
River-front ..." (M&D, Ch. 40, p. 403)

"A Field-Marshal's Dream" in that the view commanded
covers the entirety of a perhaps strategically
important locale, something to that effect ...

But the really interesting bits here are the various
meanings of "representation" in play, political,
religious, symbolic, literary, theatrical, something
I've been trying to hint at in my various posts on the
Eucharist, when I get a moment, have one more to go
...


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