M & D Chapter 13

[David Ewers]

Oh, I just meant set relatively far part, like a squirrel's as opposed to a hawk's; or a deer's as opposed to a cougar's.

On Mar 15, 2015, at 11:09 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Mark Kohut wrote:

> wide-set...a little contemporary urban slang? Was it around by 1997? Dunno.
> 
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wideset
> 
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:06 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
>> a couple more noodles:
>> 
>> p142 - Determining longitude = going against the earth's grain?  What's that
>> got to do with Lines?
>> p142 - Dr. Zhang discovered Pluto in the East?  What's with the greenish
>> blue blur (p143)
>> p143 - Susannah, Mason's crush with the wide-set eyes:  Does wide distance
>> between eyes (besides suggesting prey rather than predator) have something
>> to do with parallax?  Not the predator's laser-focused zeroing in, but a
>> more inclusive, 'big-picture' view?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for holding down the fort, Mark.
>> 
>> There's tons of stuff in Chapter 13, but Here are a few of my "off" Obs:
>> 
>> Riffing on the Crossroads references (the Yellow meets the Dog) and
>> Hades/Pluto stuff, I get further impressions that St. Helena is a place for
>> bad contracts and Faustian bargains.
>> p127: Waddington and all his "all it says in my Contract is one Transit of
>> Venus..."
>> p140: Maskelyne, talking about his rather Mephistophelian bro-in-law, Clive
>> of India:  "He's not yet ready to make use of me, that's all.  Someday he
>> must...I've been paid for... it shan't cost him anything." .... Whatever his
>> Bargain, he's not happy with it.  Mason, who as yet hasn't seen the terms of
>> his own, is but apprehensive."
>> 
>> The (infernal? Plutonic?) East India Company financed the Seven Years' War?
>> What did that bargain entail? ' Waves of Ink incarnadine'? (great word,
>> incarnadine!)
>> All that Ink incarnadine caused the Crown to tax the American colonies?  How
>> did the E.I.C. benefit from the war?  Was it by charging the Crown interest?
>> (another bargain...)
>> 
>> I also got a reminder here of the nexus/deal between Scientism and
>> Corporatism.  How tightly are they bound?  Are they the same thing?
>> 
>> A few more random bits:
>> 
>> As to the bad instrument, do you suppose it's Lunar gravity that's effecting
>> the plumb line (St. Helena a moon-ruled place, influenced by tides... tying
>> in to the clocks from last chapter, moaning about what being on the water
>> does to their mechanical sanity...)
>> Or does the gravitational anomaly have something to do with the island being
>> a Slumbering Creature? (p128)  St. Helena is described as an Incubus, an
>> infernal creation of the E.I.C.?
>> So, does the Company represent the birth of the modern (occult) death
>> culture that will eventually bring us the Rocket (...the same machine that
>> will take us, Charon's ferry-like, to the Moon... bringing the Contract full
>> circle....  And what sort of Transit is that?)
>> 
>> 
>> Miscellanea:
>> p126 - James Town opens from the inside? ("Tho' small in secular
>> Dimensions,...")
>> p129  - The Moon depicted as a White Luminary with the face of a Woman of
>> the Town (a contractor, of [a few] sorts?)
>> p132 -The rain falling from Mason's tricorn hat: 3 plumb lines
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2015, at 3:48 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:),
>> Mark Kohut wrote:
>> 
>> p. 141....."many,--as had the elder Cabot upon his deathbed,---claimed
>> to've been told the Secrets of th eLongitude by God (os, as some preferred,
>> Thatwhchever Created Earth and her Rate of Spin)
>> 
>> is that Cabot, one SEBASTION?
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=GiESAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=cabot+%2B+longitude&source=bl&ots=1suTbva96A&sig=o_lYAhr6VpKP4_KbbYhdCWJU9KI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hV4FVdOULIiMNpnEg4AI&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=cabot%20%2B%20longitude&f=false
>> 
>> And don't you just love the soft satirizing of religious talk, or
>> maybe "philosophical theology" which
>> finds abstract ways to say what a word used to say......and/or what
>> might be meant by a vague word
>> such as 'God"....
>> 
>> Reminds me of what he seems to do in Against the Day.
>> 
>> p.142   riff on Latitude vs. Longitude...in which it is said that Zero
>> Meridian
>> is based on a certain Himalayan Observatory, in Tibet..........
>> 
>> ANOTHER throwing in of THIS nod to Tibetan centering of life.....
>> Can we not help but think of the cover of Against the Day now that it
>> is published?....
>> 
>> Eastern 'religious' thought slides into the text like certain
>> 'anarchist' notions slide into
>> GR and AtD, yes?..the kind of Eastern 'religious' thought we might
>> characterize as
>> non-religious (in any Western sense)?...
>> 
>> Tibetan Buddhism...a 'religion' without a hierarchy and without any
>> scriptural must-interpret doctrine?
>> a TRP 'ideal"?.....
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