MDDM Ch. 75

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733.5 "Mr C. Dicey's County Atlas"

Perhaps the 1770 edition of John Speed's _Theatre of the Empire of Great
Britaine_ published by C. Dicey & Co.

http://www.antiquemaps.com/uk/info/speeded.htm

http://www.antiquemaps.co.uk/book/chapter15.html

733.8 NB the pronoun "*sous rature*", both a neat way for Mason (and the
narrative) to demonstrate his affection and respect for his former partner
and, perhaps, a subtly parody of the Derridean-Heideggerian rhetorical
sleight of hand

733.20 "the Dace"

http://www.waterland.net/visschenwinkel/dace.htm

734.9 "Dear knaahs"  ?

I get the sense that Jere's mum is side-stepping the question and asking her
son to to keep his peace; "knaa" is dialect for know.

734.24 Canny Bob  ?

735.3 "they look exactly like Chub"

http://www.daiwasports.co.uk/woa/species/chub.htm

734-6 NB the travesty of Christian symbolism around Mason: fisherman, the
caroming lamb carcasses in the ship's hold &c

737.3 "the Food Riots"

http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/Captain_Swing/Captain_Swing.htm

738.1 "Hammerfost"

http://www.hammerfest.kommune.no/english.html

Click on the "Welcome to Hammerfest" link on the top right corner to
download more info and photos.

738.6 "Bayley went to the North Cape"

http://www.canningschurcheswiltshire.org.uk/william_bayley.htm

738 ff "Taken, then,-- yet further North." Jere's mysterious visitor and the
journey to the "inner Surface of the Earth" etc

Cf. Ch. 61

739.5 "Gimbals" pl. n. a device, consisting of two or three pivoted rings at
right angles to each other, that provides free suspension in all planes for
an object such as a gyroscope, compass, chronometer etc. Also called "gimbal
ring" [16th C. variant of earlier *gimmal* finger ring, from Old French
*gemel*, from Latin *gemellus*, diminutive of *geminus* twin]

740.31 "the 'Secular Change of Declination'"

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/resqdyn/articles/magdecfaq.htm

The way that the different connotations of the term "declination" in
astronomy and geophysics have been juxtaposed or superimposed in this novel
reminds me of Pynchon's earlier thing with "entropy" as applied to either
(or both) thermodynamics and information theory.

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