M & D Chapter 13

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > How did the E.I.C. benefit from the war?

Karl Marx says:

 > The events of the Seven-Years-War transformed the East India Company 
from a commercial into a military and territorial power. It was then 
that the foundation was laid of the present British Empire in the East. 
Then East India stock rose to £263, and dividends were then paid at the 
rate of 12 1/2 per cent. <

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/07/11.htm


On 15.03.2015 18:52, David Ewers wrote:

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

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