M&D - Chapter 19 - p 193 - Macclesfield and Bradley

[Mark Kohut]

p. 190....

'for the living God's a Beast of Prey,"----that ugly Puritanism, again?

"it is the Roman Whore's Time, which let the eleven days be
stolen".... a Jesuit, etc.
So, it is the Battle-fields on the earth that have their counterparts in Time.

Are the missing days, among other Pynchonian resonances, an overarching metaphor
for religious wars?....

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
> So the point of view changes, again, and the narrator is now Mason. This carries on till the bottom of the next page, 194.
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> I find the paragraph about how 'Bradley might never have spoken' particularly genius.
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> <<Macclesfield star'd vacantly, his face gone in the Instant to it's own commision'd Portrait,- a response to unwelcome speech perfected by the Class to which he yet aspir'd. Bradley might never have spoken.>>
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> Sorry if this is a repetition.
> My kid started kindergarten this week. Emotional and exhausting by all standards, but all good.
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