eastward against the day

[Joseph Tracy]

“As to journey west,” adds the Revd helpfully, “in the same sense as the Sun, is to live, raise Children, grow older, and die, carried along by the Stream of the Day,— whilst to turn Eastward, is somehow to resist time and age, to work against the Wind, seek ever the dawn, even, as who can say, defy Death.”

Pynchon, Thomas. Mason & Dixon (p. 263). 

two of the Traverse Sons, Reef and Kit head east after Webb’s death. Kit going the furthest.

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