M&D - chapter 19-21 - The Calendar

[Elisabeth Romberg]

ON THE CALENDAR

David Cowart (in TP&the dark passages of history) reckons the the attention to calendar reform serves a number of thematic strands, like the dread of Jesuit machinations, and that TP contrives to make the time-changing paranoia suggest new variations on a colonialist theme, like when Mason «concocts fantasies worthy of Cyrano de Bergerac» later on in the book «with which to regale those who persist in badgering him about the supposedly lost days» (p. 146) The first one badgering him, as we learn here, being his father. And this is also his first "concocted fantasy" (?) …as he produces his pipe and pours himself some wine...-
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