eastward against the day

[Mark Kohut]

What a great find again in our current Group Read discussion .
Once again, I quiver with the ambiguity.

Which is P's 'vision"??...

and I suggest BOTH.

His quiet sublimity does touch Shakespeare's expressive sublimity, I say
bloviatingly.

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> “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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