ATDTDA: (36) pgs 1030-1038
Bekah
bekker2 at mac.com
Tue Jul 15 21:18:53 CDT 2008
And on to the Ætheronauts, light/dark and moving pictures
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page 1030
* Sodality of Ætheronauts
A sodality is a society; the ætheronauts use the æther as their
medium of flight via mechanical wings - they are religious novices.
The Chums figure they were destined to have families but the girls
could never really go to earth so they nested on the city rooftops
* nitronaphthol - engine fuel
* chaffinch a pretty little bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffinch
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Page 1030
The girls' names are:
* Heartsease - a flower - Viola tricolor - which has the medicinal
quality of lifting the spirits, i.e., "Mends a broken heart" - she
pairs up with Randolph
* Primula - the Primrose (Primula vulgaris) has the medicinal quality
of inducing sleep and she pairs up with Miles
* Viridian, from the Latin for "green," and she's definitely "green",
as demonstrated by this scolding of Chick Counterfly: "Fumes are not
the future,"
pairs up with Chick
* Blaze, "Burning dead dinosaurs and whatever they ate ain't the
answer, Crankshaft Boy."
pairs up with Darby
"each had found her way to this Ætherist sorority through the
mysteries of" - ta-da, ta-da... "inconvenience..." (lower case)
such as a missed train or great waves of wind, light saturation
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page 1031
(what is this - a bunch of science stuff I have no comprehension of)
Like Sidney and Beatrice Webb around here." - British socialists of
the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Webb
The Chums flew northwest and found the City of our Lady - Queen of
the Angels -
Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as "Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina
de los Ángeles."
Reina = Queen, fairly common female name in Spanish
"... where on earth is this - that's sort of the problem - the on
earth part." Indicating that this likely is the counter earth,
although I don't know why this couldn't be the real earth and the
other one was the counter earth. How could one tell?
And the coming darkness cast by the light:
And in Southern California light is flooding forth form suburban
homes and so on - factory sky-lights - athletic fields, city plazas,
automobile lights -
"... they felt themselves an uneasy witness to some final conquest, a
triumph over night whose motive none could quite grasp."
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Light seems to have won over darkness, but that's not necessarily
good news as there are side effects to the conquest of darkness:
Labor now works overtime and xtra work-shifts?
But there is additional employment - further expansion -
The Chums debate briefly:
"Yup groundhog sweat misery and early graves."
more investment in these things and ...
"I am as fond of the subjunctive mood as any."
"fuck you," = "Long live capitalism"
Darkness from the light:
Miles: "Lucifer - son of the morning - bearer of light - Prince of
Evil
http://www.dpjs.co.uk/lucifer.html
Isaiah's epithet for the King of Babylon with Christ's vision -
according t o Luke, of Satan falling like lighting from heaven.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2010:18-10:18&version=9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
Satan - etc.
But their "paycheck" bounces so our boys are in California without
evident means of support
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Page 1034
At a Hollywood hot dog stand called "Links" (like the very real
Pinks of Hollywood?) ...
http://www.pinkshollywood.com/pgz/history.htm
(but Pinks opened in 1940 or so - )
Chick Counterfly runs into his father, Dick who drives a Packard
and lives in a Beaux Arts mansion on West Adams with his 3rd wife,
Treacle (dark and syrupy sweet - will probably rot your teeth).
1914 Packard -
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/p/14pacmodel238touring_HMN.jpg
Beaux Arts mansion
http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Beaux-
Arts.htm
West Adams, LA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Adams,_Los_Angeles,_California
A large area of now historic homes in LA.
"The West Adams area was developed between 1880 and 1925, and
contains many diverse architectural styles of the era. Architectural
styles seen in West Adams include the Queen Anne, Shingle, Gothic
Revival, Transitional Arts and Crafts, American Craftsman/Ultimate
Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Renaissance Revival,
Mediterranean Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Mission Revival,
Egyptian Revival, Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical styles. West Adams
boasts the only Greene and Greene house in Los Angeles. Its historic
homes are frequently used as locations for movies and TV shows
including CSI, Six Feet Under, The Shield, Monk, Confessions of a
Dangerous Mind and Of Mice and Men."
Dick shows off his machinery - a big spinning disk - Nipkow scanner
1884 which was invented by Paul Nipkow in 1884 and used for very
early stages of television. Although capable of high-speed scanning,
conventional Nipkow disks failed to provide enough amounts of light
to image fluorescence from live cells.
http://www.yokogawa.com/scanner/products/csu10e.htm
http://www.diycalculator.com/popup-h-console.shtml#A3
They apparently access Gilligan's Island what with the sailor-hatted
monkey (Dobey Gillis), the palm tree and the Skipper showing up on
the screen. Dick says he picks this one up every week.
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Chick and Dick go to meet Merle Rideout and Roswell Bounce at the Van
Nuys balloon field. Roswell is paranoid
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Page 1036
Oxone . . . Blattnerphone components
Oxone - a type of oxidizer
The Blattnerphone recorder http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/
gramophone/m2-3021.3-e.html
Fleming valve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_valve
Lee De Forest added that grid electrode to the Fleming valve
The Fleming valve--named for British electrical engineer Sir John
Ambrose Fleming (1849–1945)--was an early form of diode (a vacuum
tube in which electrons flow in one direction, from a heated filament
to a plate). In 1907, De Forest (AtD, p. 29) created the triode out
of the diode by inserting a curved mesh grid, whose voltage could be
varied, between the filament and the plate.
output . . . can be the indefinite integral of any signal
Long discussion mostly removed to the Discussion page on Jan. 23, 2008
This is in fact an elegant mathematical, or, better, 'pataphysical,
expression of the phenomenon of looking at a single photograph and
imagining it as part of a movie (which is after all just a sequence
of still photographs), or of many possible movies--the movie is the
integral of the photograph. This is techno-mathematical nonsense of a
very particular kind: an example of 'Pataphysics [5], which its
originator, the absurdist novelist and playwright Alfred Jarry [6]
(1873-1907) defined as "The science of imaginary solutions". His
fictional creation Dr. Faustroll explains that 'Pataphysics deals
with "the laws which govern exceptions and will explain the universe
supplementary to this one". One can imagine any number of possible
"movies" or world-lines, for the subject of a photograph, any number
of alternate histories and supplementary universes.
paranoia querelans
Misspelling of querulans. This page describes the disorder.
They've got the theory now to find the analogies
but Roswell is paranoid - querelans
they accumulate stuff not knowing what to do with it but sure enough
- they find something -
photo of downtown LA - Merle rocked the carbons - took from the
cabinet a brilliant red crystal - Lorandite - from Macedonia before
the Balkan wars - pure thallium arsenosulphide -
Merle [...] took from a wall safe a brilliant red crystal, brought it
over to a platinoid housing and carefully slid it into place.
"Lorandite — brought out of Macedonia before the Balkan Wars, pure
thallium arsenosulfide, purer quality than you can find anymore."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorandite
* Lorandite is a thallium arsenic sulfosalt with formula: TlAsS2. It
was first discovered at Alshar, Republic of Macedonia in 1894 and
named after Loránd Eötvös, physicist at the University of Budapest.
The lorandite is thought to have the potential to unravel the so-
called "neutrino puzzle." By serving as a geochemical detector of the
neuron, the lorandite could validate or disprove the theory of the
standard solar system, say physicists. In simple terms—it would let
us understand the work of the Sun.
http://tw.strahlen.org/fotoatlas1/lorandite_foto.html
* Thallium - a form of poison
http://drnickonline.blogspot.com/2006/11/thallium-poisoning-
everything-russian.html
* Iron arsenosulfide is the most common ore of arsenic. It is found
in Mexico (Mapimí), Sweden (Tunaberg) and the U.S. (Montana).
According to Risto Karajkov writing in "World Press":
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Moving pictures:
"They bring the still life to action - then many others of American
lives unquestionably in motion - effect was of a small city in frames
He was on a mission to set free the images not just the photographs
but also of all that came his way - prince who with his kiss releases
that Sleeping Beauty into wakefulness.
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"old gaffers"
A gaffer in the motion picture industry is the head of the electrical
department, responsible for the execution (and sometimes the design)
of the lighting plan for a production. In British English the term
gaffer is long established as meaning an old man, or the foreman of a
squad of workmen. (In U.S. English, similarly, "Pappy" is a nickname
for the leader of such a group—like Pappy Hod in V..)
The term was also used to describe men who adjusted lighting in
English theatre and men who tended street lamps, after the "gaff"
they used, a pole with a hook on its end [7].
One seller of gaffer's tape (used in theater and film) says the
"gaff" story is incorrect, but it isn't clear this is correct,
because long poles called "hi-tech focusing aids" are definitely
still used in theater.
The "old man" meaning comes from a dialectal pronunciation of
"grandfather." Roswell and Merle are gaffers (old men /
electricians/old men).
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Bekah
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