P and mirrors & the 'elastic universal"

[Mark Kohut]

>From an article in today's NYT about a DC exhibition on the sea. I want to see 
it:
 
"A 1559 book by William Cunningham, a physician and favorite of Queen Elizabeth, 
is even more ambitious; it is called “The Cosmographical Glasse, Conteinyng the 
Pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Navigation.” 
The book names itself as a “glasse,” a mirror, in which the entire cosmos can be 
discerned and ordered, with the navigator himself at its stable center. "
 
And, should have posted this in my last post. Kermode, writing on Shakepeare's 
incredible powers of verbal "ambiguity", i.e. allusive resonance, uses
the phrase "the elastic universal" about some of the richest, most multi-valent 
words. Seems 'the elastic universal' might apply to "V." (as symbol)  itself as 
well as to many other symbols of TRP's, yes?