M & D

[Monte Davis]

MK> And why does Dixon say this is  "by Mathematical Necessity?

I think it's a (mostly) anachronistic allusion to a cluster of mathematical
and physical ideas about dynamical flows and fields: that (except in
unrealistically ideal circumstances) there are always backwaters, dead
zones, singularities, eye-of-the-hurricane places where generally prevalent
influences don't act or cancel out. See also the discussion of the Eleven
Days as a vortex, 555-556.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_theorem

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> p. 69....D; "there do remain, beyond the reach of the V.O.C., routes
> of escape, pockets of Safety"---Markets that never answer to the
> Company, gatherings that remain forever unknown, even down in
> Butter-Bag Castle""....
>
> Butter--Bag = Opprobrious epithets for a Dutchman...(maybe because of
> of the high production of butter)...sez an 1811 Slang Dictionary.....
>
> And why does Dixon say this is  "by Mathematical Necessity?
> -
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