CoL49: Maas y Mas

[Robin Landseadel]

Maas y Mas
Maas is not merely a definable single word or proper name, but a Web  
of words, a Network of ideas , much like the analogous Traverse. Meuse  
is a varient spelling of Maas. From the Wikipedia posting for the  
Meuse River:
The Meuse (Dutch and German Maas, Latin Mosa) is a major European  
river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the  
Netherlands before draining into the North Sea. It has a total length  
of 925 km (575 miles).
The Meuse River was the site of major battles during World War One.  
World War One plays a major role in Gravity's Rainbow and Against the  
Day
Maas also translates from the original Dutch into Web or Net. There is  
also the near-homophoneMass, a word with obvious applications in  
physics and sometimes in metaphysics as well.Oedipal Mass could have  
been an overheard and possibly Mondegreened snatch of psychobabble  
issuing from some shrink's session. Let us not for get that Our  
Beloved Author is, after all, a Satirist. I suppose an Oedipal Mass  
could be removed by some sort of specialist. . . .
Also see: Webb Traverse in Against the Day .

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