M & D Deep Duck in flight

[Mark Kohut]

Chap 7, p 59....The trip is like a flight...why's that?...disconnected
from the watery earth, that reservoir of everything?

flight, back to echoes of GR and, foreechoes of AtD especially.
Flight, not until the 20th Century, the 'modern' era, remember the
diving plane as Futurism, modernity in Against the Day? Is this
evoked?

by happenstance, I have just read this on another voyage to Africa
from Woolf's The Voyage Out: "for these reasons [continent unsettled],
they wanted a slow inquisitive kind of ship, comfortable, for they
were bad sailors, but not extravagant, and they would stop at various
ports...." The upper middle class Dalloways, he once in
Parliament....1920's or so...

"the other half of everything known"....the dark continent, dark with
all its connotations. Esp. slavery.

Becky quoted the line about "all who set foot on EnGlish soil are
free"....Remember the LED who said he was free, "an English dog"....
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