p. 132 James's Town, built upon the Summit of a living Volcano is 'unmediated'... 'is St. Helena really, all Performance"--- The origin story =="Some notion of the Garden in Genesis, as an instance of extra-terrestial Plantation." There are more than one allusions to extra-terrestials in M & D. Some meanings? - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l