eastward against the day

[Mark Kohut]

You know what.....I'm taking it back; I was waiting for the sun to come up
in the East before coffee...in this example, east is 'wrong' direction,
west is the more human one,...

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really appreciate this note, Joseph.
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 9:55 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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