MD3PAD 553-555

[Toby G Levy]

        Ethelmer completes his song about a thermometer.  DePugh sticks
his head in the room looking for Tenebrae, and Ethelmer suggests she is
off somewhere dreaming, but not of him.

        Chapter 56 begins on page 554. Wicks presents to his assembly
a copy of the field journals of Mason and Dixon, printed in
1776.  Wicks finds many occurrences of eleven day spans in the journals,
and he thinks it all refers back to the lost eleven days of the
calendar reform of 1752. Wicks' analysis is met with general derision
from his audience.

        Mason tells Dixon that the missing eleven days comes up in
conversation regularly, and it is like a vortex of time that is
endlessly repeating.

        Dixon tries to use some mathematical logic to explain the
recurrence of the subject of the eleven days, but Mason scoffs at it.

Toby