M&D - chapter 19-21 - The Calendar

[Jerome Park]

Mason is uncomfortable, exhausted, weary. Why? He's a science man, but he's
still troubled by the questions of metaphysics, religion and politics. He
is haunted to answer  questions that science, as it breaks from philosophy
and religion, tables in the interest of progress and the pragmatic needs of
markets.

But the missing days. Where did they go? Did they ever exist? Did naming
them, or numbering them, give them existence? Did deleting them from the
calendar synchronize the machinery of Englishmen with Catholics, Frenchmen
and even Jesuits? Why has science brokered this deal in time? A single
currency will surely, as more recent events in Europe have proven, deny
citizens fundamental rights, to property and the wealth of nations.  So the
men in The George (a Pub), like the men who live under his Monarchy in
America, may not be as dumb as they sound, as blinded by conspiracy as they
seem to be, not quite the idiots Mason calls them, anymore than he is the
idiot his father calls him. It is, after all, metaphysics, no simple topic,
so questions of Being, Knowing, and, Meaning, Being and Time, Language and
Knowing...etc...

Did Mason make up the Pygmies?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:

> Would you mind expanding on that, please? (I am just getting back into the
> group read).
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> 2. apr. 2015 kl. 18.44 skrev Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>:
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> Metaphysicians  attempt to clarify the fundamental notions by which people
> understand the world.
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> In Chapter 19 Mason is a metaphysician.
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Those lost eleven days have always bemused me in my readings. I want to
>> find something metaphysical since Time matters in all his work....yet,
>> haven't.
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>> I keep thinking very simplistically, very prosaically, probably stupidly
>> about that feeling of " where does the time go" we've all had......or the
>> song about....
>> As I said, not quite right....
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