Glancing Excursions

[Dave Monroe]

"Get ready for glancing excursions into maritime law, the nascent
Internet, obscure surf music and Locard’s exchange principle (on loan
from criminology), plus a side trip to the lost continent of
Lemuria...."

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6668314.html?industryid=47141

Okay ...

maritime law

"Welcome to the MLA" (!)

http://www.mlaus.org/
http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/
http://www.megalaw.com/top/admiralty.php


the nasecent Internet

http://www.nethistory.info/index.html
http://members.cox.net/opfer/Internet.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
http://vimeo.com/2696386?pg=embed&sec=2696386
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html


obscure surf music

http://www.surfmusic.com/
http://www.doublecrownrecords.com/
http://www.oberlin.edu/staff/thinders/Surf.html


Locard’s exchange principle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locard's_exchange_principle
http://science.howstuffworks.com/locards-exchange-principle.htm
http://www.profiling.org/journal/vol1_no1/jbp_ed_january2000_1-1.html

"Locard's Exchange Principle states that with contact between two
items, there will always be an exchange."

http://crime-scene-processing.suite101.com/article.cfm/lockards_exchange_principle


Lemuria

"Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu)."

http://www.lemuria.net/

Perhaps the most popular example of Mount Shasta lore, and a legend
involving the first claim by non-Native Americans for a spiritual
connection with the mountain, concerns the mystical brotherhood
believed to roam through jeweled corridors deep inside the mountain.
According to Miesse, "In the mid-19th Century paleontologists coined
the term "Lemuria" to describe a hypothetical continent, bridging the
Indian Ocean, which would have explained the migration of lemurs from
Madagascar to India. Lemuria was a continent which submerged and was
no longer to be seen. By the late 19th Century occult theories had
developed, mostly through the theosophists, that the people of this
lost continent of Lemuria were highly advanced beings. The location of
the folklore 'Lemuria' changed over time to include much of the
Pacific Ocean. In the 1880s a Siskiyou County, California, resident
named Frederick Spencer Oliver wrote A Dweller on Two Plants, or, the
Dividing of the Way which described a secret city inside of Mount
Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria. Edgar Lucian Larkin, a
writer and astronomer, wrote in 1913 an article in which he reviewed
the Oliver book. In 1925 a writer by the name of Selvius wrote
"Descendants of Lemuria: A Description of an Ancient Cult in America"
which was published in the Mystic Triangle, Aug., 1925 and which was
entirely about the mystic Lemurian village at Mount Shasta. Selvius
reported that Larkin had seen the Lemurian village through a
telescope. In 1931 Wisar Spenle Cerve published a widely read book
entitled Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific in which the
Selvius material appeared in a slightly elaborated fashion. The
Lemuria-Mount Shasta legend has developed into one of Mount Shasta's
most prominent legends" (1993; 136).

http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/fol/lem/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)