MDDM Ch. 50

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485.3-11 "the Shambles of Eternity [...] the Creation they believe they
know,-- re-created."

Cf. Shelley's 'Adonais' (1812):

    The One remains, the many change and pass;
    Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
    Life, like a dome of many-colour'd glass,
    Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
    Until Death tramples it to fragments. [...]
                        (stanza 52)

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/shelley18.html

A vivid description of a forest sunset nonetheless.

485.14 "Ordinaries"  n. 4. (UK) public meal provided at a fixed time and
price at an inn etc.; establishment providing this; (US) tavern

485.18 and 490.12 "The Rabbi of Prague", the "Golem" at Prague  (?)

Rabbi of Prague (1513-1609)
The 16th century rabbi (aka Judah Löw ben Bezulel, aka the Maharal) who,
according to Jewish folklore, created a golem. He used the golem as his
weekday servant, removing the animating charm on Fridays so that it could
rest on the Sabbath. He once forgot to do this and caught up with the golem
in front of a synagogue and had to destroy it. (Hyperarts)

485.19 "the Elect Cohens of Paris"  (?)

485.21 "the Hebrew letter *Shin*"  (?)

487-8 America: "Another case of, 'As above, so below.'"

Cf. Donne's Elegy XIX 'To His Mistress Going to Bed' (c. 1595)

        Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
    Behind, before, above, between, below.
    O my America! my new-found-land,
    My kingdom, safeliest when with one man mann'd [...]

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~ridley/current.html

488.3 "'Tis Patrick Henry, Sir, they've all got the Itch,-- "

Patrick Henry (1736-99), American statesman, born in Hanover County,
Virginia, failed in storekeeping and in farming, so turned lawyer in 1760,
and first displayed his great eloquence in pleading the cause of the people
against an unpopular tax (1763). A great patriot in the War of Independence,
he delivered the first speech in the Continental congress (1774). In 1776 he
carried the vote of the Virginia convention for independence, and became
governor of the new state. In 1791 he retired from public life. (Cf. 395.15)

http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm

489.24 Tim Tox: "Like Mr Wilkes, I have endanger'd my Freedom by Printing
what displeaseth this King. Not 'the' King, you appreciate...."  (?)

490.10-11 "the Black Boys [...] at Fort Loudon"  (?)

490.16 "Black Watch Plaid"  (?)

The Black Watch or Royal Highland Regiment, was a Scottish infantry
regiment. It was formed (1739-40) to guard against Scottish rebels and keep
the peace. It became known as the Black Watch because of the dark colors of
its plaid regimental tartan. (Hyperarts)

NB also allusions to _Star Trek_ (485) and Popeye (486.11-13).

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