Okay..Speculation Riff, number xx

[Mark Kohut]

I think I remember one other 1400s mention in the under the sand section...
  and somewhwere near the end...

Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  --- Mark Kohut wrote:

> a kind of elegy for lost Humanity?......from when the "channel to
> the sea silted up
> back in the 1400s"..........a period in Western history---when
> Adams Virgin reigned---
> when humans were most human? signified by the ghosts that now
> inhabit it?

what struck me was how the city which had been cosmopolitan
became local: small-townish, which -- and this may be 
disputable -- is "not" a good thing in Pynchon?

> 
> did this remind anyone of the mound section of M & D?....
> 

not yet - have to take another look...

> there are a couple-three other 1400s mentions in AtD,
> right?..remember any? 

you bring up a good point there. 
To evoke a time, as I, among others,
have suggested is what is intended here, should also include
references to the times past of that time... 

But no, I don't remember any.




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