eastward against the day

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Cherrycoke p. 14:  “O children, I even dream’d in those Days,--but
only long after the waking Traverse was done.”

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 4:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
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>> two of the Traverse Sons, Reef and Kit head east after Webb’s death. Kit
>> going the furthest.
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