ATD: Re: Postal Systems, Parabolas, Light and Balloons, to Boot!

[pynchonoid]

Welcome aboard!

--- tyler wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> While biding my time in the O'-too-long lead-up to
> November 21st, I have 
> been rereading Mason & Dixon—A literary pre-func, if
> you will. In light of 
> the little we (do) know of Against the Day, I found
> the following paragraph 
> interesting and thought I would put it out there for
> all to recollect:
> 
> (Of course, all apolgies if this was recently
> posted. I possibly would not 
> know, what with all the talk of messages not
> appearing and mysterious 
> membership cancellations)
> 
> 
> "Speaking as Postmaster–General," Dr. Franklin will
> later amplify, back in 
> Philadelphia,"— I see our greatest problem as Time,—
> never anything, but 
> Time. For any message to reach its recipient, we
> must reckon in a fix'd 
> delay,— months by ship,days over Land,— whilst via
> the Jesuit Telegraph, 
> they enjoy their d———'d Marvel of instant
> Communication,"— far-reaching and 
> free of error, thanks to giant balloons sent to
> great Altitudes, Mirrors of 
> para- (not to mention dia-) bolickal perfection,
> beams of light focused to 
> hitherto unimagined intensities,—so, at any rate,
> say the encrypted reports 
> that find their ways to the desks of highly–plac'd
> men whose daily task it 
> is, to make sure they know everything,— appropriate
> to their places,— that 
> must be known.
> 
> MD 287
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> I've been following y'alls discussions for quite
> some time and thought I 
> would finally say a "How d'ye do?".
> 
> Now, on with it!
> 
> tyler
> 
> 

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