M & D Deep Duck bad luck

[Mark Kohut]

Bad luck to go to sea on Good Friday...says a witch
who lacks curse insurance....

We have lots of 'religious superstition' in this chapter from the above
thru a belief in a Dog who 'led him to presume there exist
safe-conduct Procedures
for the realm of Death.

Expenses come up...

M & D are in business....a couple money/capitalism bits
in the narrator's backgrounding and we might see
1) a move out of the feudal
2) link of money, science and business-----some later P themes

Did the pragmatic 'progress' of Enlightenment science/technics
need revved-up capitalism to happen? (by revved-up I am open-endedly
distinguishing IT, if right, from small market capitalism, money since
a long time
ago, etc.)

Big long term "financing' was needed. Took M & D four years.
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