Also, Axial Age in History, more resonance

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut sez:
 
> Pynchon adds undertones?: 
> Historically, the  <http://www.answers.com/topic/axial-age> Axial Age
refers to the period from 800 to 200 b.c. during which ...
 
Meh. Could be, but -- at least in my admittedly patchy and overwhelmingly
Anglophone reading --Jaspers' schema (and this term from it) don't seem to
have reached even a Spengler or Toynbee level of currency. 
 
I'm inclined to stick with your first reading for this author, who was after
all briefly an engineering major back in the day.
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