Happy May Day!

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"We are safely past the days of the Eis-Heilgen---St. Pancratius, St. 
Servattius, St. Bonifacius, die kalte Sophie . . . " from GR (285) to Pynchon's 
placing of Ginnungagap, Ymir and other Norse sources of the myth systems in AtD 
very close to that region of the Vormance Expedition, a magically charged and 
sentient part of the world that has something taken from it, something very near 
the "end of the world", at least that part of the far north seas where Viking 
sailors spoke of falling off the edge of the earth into some abyss outside of 
time, Northern European systems of myth that eventally mutated into the 
ice-saints: "this rear-guard who preserve winter against the revolutionaries of 
May?."

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