AtD (37) p.1059-1062. Other possibilities,Time Past, silver and a snowball

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          MK: Wow!............I feel like a slacker.........Great stuff.

I've been reading up on heremetics elsewhere, ties together photography 
& Merle with a gordian knot.

          Yea, i was just circling around the notion that silver wasn't 
          too good an element in TRP's vision..................

Good bad or indifferent, the Moon, the Dark, the Sinister—vide past 
discussions—Silver is an essential element in Against the Day.

          "the whitest element" !................White Visitation. 
          Chicago World's Fair buildings............

Prince Leopold, the Congo. . . .

PS: Gold is supposed to be ultimate quicksilver:

              The attainment of rubedo, or redness, is symbolized by 
          the transmutation into gold. The alchemists often talk 
          about ‘living gold’. The ‘living gold of the philosophers’ 
          is the pure fire that is in the philosopher’s stone, or in 
          quicksilver, or in the root humidity of nature which is 
          completely penetrated by the fire. The living gold is the 
          fixated seed that vivifies the philosopher’s quicksilver 
          and the matter of the stone, that is the root humidity of 
          metals. It is a light that is clothed by a perfect, pure 
          ethereal body. It all sounds mystifying, but read it again 
          and know that the living gold is actually pure consciousness, 
          or pure awareness.

http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/alchemy_3.htm


http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/09/24/review.quicksilver/