MDDM Ch. 76 The Weavery

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From: Dave Monroe

      "Mason will go back to waking day after day in
   Sapperton, piecing together odd cash jobs for the
   Royal Society, reductions for Maskelyne's Almanack,--
   small children everywhere, a neat Observatory out in
   the Garden, a reputation in the Golden Valley as a
   Sorcerer, a Sorcerer's Apprentice, who once climb'd
   that strange eminence at Greenwich, up into another
   level of Power, sail'd to all parts of the Globe, but
   came back down among them again,-- they will be easy
   with him, call him Charlie, at last.  Another
   small-town eccentric absorb'd back into the Weavery,
   keeping a work-space fitted out someplace in the back
   of some long Cotswold house, down a chain of rooms
   back from the lane and out into the crooked Looming of
   those hillside fields.'" (M&D, Ch. 76, p. 748)

"Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with
gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil
seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine
warp, woof or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of 
existing in one gather it is asumed there are others, compartmented
off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater
importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity...
... Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We
could at least see." {V. 141.18, Bantam]

    "...up into another level of Power..."

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