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

[Elisabeth Romberg]

I’m getting The White Goddess-vibes, Mythological vs. Linear time.

> 11. apr. 2015 kl. 13.03 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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> p. 190....
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> 'for the living God's a Beast of Prey,"----that ugly Puritanism, again?
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> "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?....
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> 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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