M&D Deep Duck Emerson

[Mark Kohut]

p. 17...isn't it so Pynchonian that a real historical mathematician
named Emerson was known
to Dixon---see the wiki---yet P can work in an extended icelandic
Spar--like meaning-- associating Emerson w Ralph Waldo, America's
greatest transcendentalist; America's thinker most watching the
heavens thru his own Telescope made of Barrel staves there in RW's New
England origins.

or am I over the top?
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