AtDDtA1: Railroad Watch

[Dave Monroe]

--- Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:

> David Casseres:
>
> It's that synchronicity/chronograph theme that P.
> introduced in M&D.  It was crucial to ocean
> navigation and surveying in the 18th century,
> and again to railroad timetables in the 19th.
> In both cases, the projection of European Lines
> onto the rest of the world. 
>  
> But there would be limits, and AtD is carrying us
> right up against them....

Exactly.  Thanks again.  Meanwhile ...

"... the clock which was sent by the Royal Society to
Mason and Dixon in Pennsylvania was John Shelton's
astronomical Regulator which is still owned by the
Society and today [1950] is keeping almost faultless
time in Burlington House, London." (p. 260)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59825

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59827


 
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