M&D Deep Duck Read. Philadelphia

[Elisabeth Romberg]

My first association was to Great Britain and the mystical island of Avalon disappearing into Mist or fog. (Representing the loss of mythical time?)

I had to look at GoogleMaps, and saw how Philadelphia lies inbetween the two rivers which would give the impression of being on an island in those weather conditions?


> 6. jan. 2015 kl. 08.38 skrev Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
> 
> 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?...
>> -
>> 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.
> 
> 
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l

-
Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l