M&D - Chapter 12 - pp 122-124

[David Ewers]

I don't know how true it is, but I've heard since I was a kid that there's a correlation between the ability to accurately estimate the hour, and mental fitness.


On Feb 28, 2015, at 6:15 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), alice malice wrote:

>> And the Ellicott tries to the Sheldon about insanity at St. Helena in folks other than Maskelyne but he's interrupted as it’s time for the Sheldon Clock to be crated up and stowed aboard ship.  The narrator comments on their relationship to the ocean,  its “Wave-beats”  and the attraction of “Synchrony.”   The Sheldon says he doesn’t much care for ships.
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> How does insanity influence time?
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> International Society for the Study of Time
> J.T. Fraser
> http://www.studyoftime.org/ContentPage.aspx?ID=28
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> Also, while P's use of the clocks here may have many purposes, one may
> be to make it easy for the reader; by making the clocks subjects
> Pynchon makes it easy for the reader to understand what the clocks do.
> It is easy for us to understand through story, and much tougher for us
> to understand through description. So, by making the clocks the
> subjects of sentences, agents, by giving them personalities, habits ,
> abilities, etc., P makes it easy for the reader.
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