M&D - Chapter 21 - The Golden Valley and Mills

[Mark Kohut]

'in strictest right-angularity"..a Pynchon trope self-created to make
the 'right angles' are associated with bad shit metaphor even here...

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
> p. 207
> <<...that the Flow of Water through Nature (...) might be re-shap'd to drive a
> Row of Looms, each working thousands of Yarns in strictest right-angularity,
> (...) nor that every stage of the 'Morphosis, would have it's equivalent in
> Pounds, Shillings and Pence."
>
>
> Stroud is the capital of the south western Cotswolds and located at the
> divergence of the five Golden Valleys (Chalford, Painswick, Nailsworth, Slad
> and Cam), so named after the monetary wealth created in the processing of
> wool from the plentiful supply of power from the River Frome. During the
> heyday of the wool trade the river powered 150 mills, turning Stroud into
> the centre of the local cloth industry.
>
>
> Is this first paragraph about the inhumanity of the working conditions at
> the mills?
> To the benefit of the few?
>
> About the working conditions at the mills:
> http://www.bacuptimes.co.uk/earlydays.htm
> So sad.
>
> Mills today:
> http://plenty.mangoconsulting.co.uk/assets/files/press/2015/Cots%20Life%20Jan%2015%20-%20Stroud%20mills.pdf
> http://www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk/general.asp?pid=22&pgid=822
>
> "Britain from above" showing Fromehall and Lodgemore Woollen Mills and
> environs, in Stroud, 1938:
> http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw059695?name=STROUD&gazetteer=STROUD&POPULATED_PLACE=STROUD&ADMIN_AREA=Stroud&ref=49
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