M & D Deep Duck in flight

[alice malice]

Uppermost was the impression, that whatever swift, rushing thing I
stood on was not so much bound to any haven ahead as rushing from all
havens astern. A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit
that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. My God!
what is the matter with me? thought I. Lo! in my brief sleep I had
turned myself about, and was fronting the ship's stern, with my back
to her prow and the compass. In an instant I faced back, just in time
to prevent the vessel from flying up into the wind, and very probably
capsizing her. How glad and how grateful the relief from this
unnatural hallucination of the night, and the fatal contingency of
being brought by the lee!

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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