M&D - Chapter 19-21 - Time

[Elisabeth Romberg]

The calendar theme is one of my favorite parts of the book!

> 30. mar. 2015 kl. 20.34 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
> 
> Ron Charles, Wa Po: Tell me one of the "sparks" you almost included
> but finally decided against.
> 
> Ryan Chapman: Vladimir Nabokov has three birthdays. He was born on
> April 10 under Russia's old Julian calendar, and their switch to the
> Gregorian one resulted in a rare gap. Somehow, his new official
> birthday was both April 22 and April 23. I don't understand how that's
> possible, but I'm told it's true.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>> ON TIME
>> 
>> Charles Clerc in 'Mason&Dixon&Pynchon' mentions how time and space are
>> related in terms of restraints, that is, the means to limit, to codify, to
>> standardize.
>> 
>> And how the calendar reform shows how time is manipulated overruling the
>> people's protests.
>> 
>> (p. 97)
>> 
>> 29. mar. 2015 kl. 21.50 skrev Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>:
>> 
>> According to David Cowart in 'TP & the dark passages of history' M&D is a
>> book that <<contextualizes its meditation on spatial phenomena (the Line and
>> its orientation to the heavens) by a remarkably exhaustive attention to the
>> temporal - to time, that is, in all it's manifestations.>> p. 145
>> 
>> 
>> 29. mar. 2015 kl. 21.05 skrev David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Space vs Time, not Good vs Evil.
>> 
>> On Sunday, March 29, 2015, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Rev'd, after telling the Landlord to serve Mason a pint, goes on to say:
>>> 
>>> <<(...) the Battle-fields we know, situated in Earth's three Dimensions, have
>>> also their counterparts in Time.>>
>>> 
>>> Which Earthly Battlefields? Good vs. Evil?
>>> 
>>> Counterparts in time? There was a battle over how we, the people, should
>>> perceive Time? Lunar goddess-time vs. Solar patriarchal-time?
>>> 
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