MD3PAD 325-327

[Toby G Levy]

        R.C. tries to tell his wife that the watch lulls him to sleep
with its ticking in his stomach, but R.C.'s wife is determined to sleep
in another room far away from the sound of the watch. R.C.'s wife soon
is reluctant to have sex with him in fear that the watch is somehow
witnessing their acts.

        Commissioner Shippen suggests that they perform surgery to
remove the watch, and R.C. attempts to throw it up but fails.

        Dixon writes a letter to Emerson telling him that the watch has
been swallowed.  He waits weeks, moping, for a reply. Eventually a
letter comes from Mrs. Emerson, saying that Emerson was ecstatic at the
fate of the watch and danced a jig, during which he stepped on something
that caused him a small injury, and he is lying in bed, promising to
explain his happiness in a future letter. Emerson himself adds a
postscript to the letter: "Time is the Space that may not be seen."

        Chapter 33 begins on page 327. Commissioner Chew invites Mason
and Dixon to join them at Christiana Bridge, a village in Delaware near
the Tangent Line, where the commissioners frequent an ale house known as
Mary Janvier's Many businessmen from Philadelphia like to pass time
there.

Toby