M & D Deep Duck in flight

[Mark Kohut]

Now, after letting this sit inside me today,  I have felt another
resonance surface..

When the Chums land below after going above (the world).

As above, so below........

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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