M&D Deep Duck Read. Philadelphia

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 06.01.2015 um 02:14 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> P 6. the City.. 'Snow lies upon all Philadelphia .'behind curtains of
> ice-fog that the City lies like .'an Isle upon an Ocean'.........
>
> Why such a metaphor here?...why want an image as an Isle upon an Ocean?...
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

On the most basic level because the "further shores" of the rivers have 
"vanish'd behind curtains of ice-fog."

The image also juxtaposes the defined (city, isle) and the as yet 
undefined (wilderness, ocean). Mason and Dixon, of course, are in the 
business of "defining" both land and sea.


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