M&D - Chapter 18 - Mason spins a mean yarn

David Ewers dsewers at comcast.net
Sun Mar 29 16:21:24 CDT 2015


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> Counterparts in time? There was a battle over how we, the people, should perceive Time? Lunar goddess-time vs. Solar patriarchal-time?

Linear v. Circular, (lunar, solar, Earthly, or otherwise spherical...)?

Was thinking about the linear time Rome adopted with Christianity, chucking circular old Sol (a punny bit of "as without, so within"?) in the process.  The Line with points (zeros) at the either end, from the first Christmas to Judgement Day...

Time/Space... circular time as "the great unbroken plain... not straight ahead like an English marching tune, but rather wandering unpredicably, with no clear beginning, nor end."?


> Rev’d, after telling the Landlord to serve Mason a pint, goes on to say:
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> «(…) the Battle-fields we know, situated in Earth’s three Dimensions, have also their counterparts in Time.»
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> Which Earthly Battlefields? Good vs. Evil?
> 

That's not Rev'd Cherrycoke, but Rev'd Cromorne?


Speaking of parallaxes, the one between Mason and Cherrycoke gets pretty miniscule here, I'd say.  The Rev'd was there "in but a representational sense, ghostly as an imperfect narrative?"  Hmm...

And speaking of parallaxes, that "Schizochronick year of '52..." was also the year Ben Franklin flew his kite (took Zeus down a couple notches, got some other big cheeses rolling...?)


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