The phrase "Against The Day" in Mason & Dixon

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 05:59:11 CST 2008


On 1/23/08, kelber wrote:
> It's used one more time on p. 683 (I actually plowed through the list of citations
> of the word "against" in the "look inside this book" feature on the Amazon site -- >it's official:  I have no life):

who need life? I'm high on drugs...er, I mean, I'm a motivated
amateur student of literature...

anyway, while you're anoraking, would you mind terribly
putting together a series of online maps showing the travels
of each major character and the Chums, each lined out in a nice
bold translucent color?  (and on separate, like, transparencies
with tabs so it'd be easy to isolate individuals)
(-;    well, it would be fun...I'd do it myself - and might, though
certainly wouldn't be upset to find somebody else had done it first...

But Laura, in that page 683 context, do you maybe think it not impossible
that "against the day" is being used to literally mean
traveling west: M&D, heading back toward the east & toward
their bosses, are tempted to turn back west and go back into
the wilderness...

of course, in ATD our progress is mostly Eastward in general...hmmm



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