M&D - Chapter 19 - going after Cronos?

[David Ewers]

Not to mention all the Dixie stuff.  I wonder what Dixon would have thought of his mutated name being a (possible) synonym for the Confederacy.

On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:11 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Elisabeth Romberg wrote:

> Funnily (or not) Mason&Dixon’s names in themselves are also now «on the market, part of the economy», been colonized, given their names to «a range of hot sauces, a semi-pro baseball league, a radio station (…) a chapter of the American Rhododendron Society» and so on. 
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> Samuel Thomas, Pynchon and the Political, p. 20
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>> 30. mar. 2015 kl. 21.48 skrev David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>:
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>> This is kind of what I was trying to get at with the Linear (watches and calendars) vs. Circular (shamanistic...) time.  Maybe I'm being too obvious here, but what if time is spherical, and clocks, etc. are an attempt at drawing a straight line 'on' that sphere?  As land surveying methods of the M-&D- period make use of triangulation in order to account for the curvature of the earth (in order to accurately delineate...), and triangulation requires Two Points as well as the unknown, couldn't the eleven days be seen as a triangulation device for time?  The Open Pampas of time being surveyed, soon to be colonized, subdivided, etc.?  
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>> Any thoughts on this?
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>> On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:38 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:), Elisabeth Romberg wrote:
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>>> I don’t know if I agree, in this context. 
>>> The battlefield in the Earth’s three dimensions is everything to do with Space, and in this book: The Line, isn’t it. Like that passage about the longing back for the open Pampas. The West. «Space - the final frontier», even parallel universes now with Cern cranking up again. Ideas like this. That people died for.
>>> Whilst the battlefield in Time would be fought with watches and calendars against Magical, shamanistic time sort of thing. Dreamtime.
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>>> Whilst the 
>>>> 29. mar. 2015 kl. 21.05 skrev David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
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>>>> Space vs Time, not Good vs Evil.
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>>>> 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:
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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?
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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?
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>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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