Before the lines were drawn

[jody2.718]

Don't have either text at hand, but thinking, on the eve of this 4th of July, about the descriptions of Mason & Dixon's perception of America at first blush- the deer, innocently blinking from the banks- the whole amazing unspoiled vastness of pre-american America,,,

and the wistful descriptions in Bleeding Edge-  the undefined potential of The Net before it fell prey to all that it has become since its first early connections- like the glistening "nerve lines" of the ice-coated tree just outside the comfy drawing room of Advent Philadelphia- the Rev'd revving up to his tale...

Is it "too late" ? Could it ever have been any different? Was it all inevitable? Do parallel lines intersect?  Que sera....

Happy secular holiday,  jody