Not to mention the obvious joak: "you ain't just whistlin' Dixie!"Īs with "strike" (see above) note that "lit" has connotations with light and fuses, an physical (as in physics) reaction that a human initiates. "First encountered in London as a show Mason wished he had not caught, no?Ĭf MDMD(10) 292.18". '''and he ain't just humming 'Love in a Cottage' either''' Notable border checkpoint since it would likely have been a main trade route for Pennsylvanians West of Susquehannah, the river running too fast for easy ferrying of goods across to Philadelphia.". Anyone who can furnish relevant slavery/Civil War explanations for the names? This must be a The crossing point on the York-Baltimore Road is at towns called New Freedom on the Pennsylvania side, Maryland Line on the Maryland side. York is 15 miles N of the Visto, Baltimor 20 miles South on the knee bend half way down Chesapeake Bay. York and Lancaster, counties and cities, are mirror images, either side of Susquehanna, though, disconcertingly, York is West of Lancaster. "The Visto will cross Susquehanna about 20 miles West of the Tangent Line, the York-Baltimore road at 40 miles West. '''Over Susquehanna,- once you've cross'd the York to Baltimore Road,- you'll see.''' In Africa, Asia, Amerindia, Oceania, Europe came and established its order of Analysis and Death.' Does Pynchon still believe this in M&D or does he believe there is life in America's old corpse still?". It is our mission to promote death.' a chillingly beautiful passage leading up to and beyond the judgement at GR 722.22 `America *was* the edge of the World. Which recalls the opinion expressed by Pynchon's narrator at GR 720 of 'we, the crippled keepers, God's spoilers. Depending on which way you read it the New World is either virgin land ripe for corruption or a second chance from a loving creator. Unlike the corrupt, fallen Old Worlds further East. But there is also a hint in 'Resurrection' at America, the New World being an Eden of - or was that for? - the Redeemed. 'green resurrection links the cycle of the seasons back to Christ's cycle of suffering, which suggests Wicks is well aware of Christianity's pagan roots, at the psychological and historical level at least, if not necessarily theological and spiritual. Superhighways of July song with spring's green return). "Wow! remember that radar screen in GR with its `green return' (also the '''Ev'rything upon the Ground, by April, as they're about to begin the West Line, must be sighted thro' a haze of green Resurrection.''' *"of an electric charge, to pass as a spark" *"Of a thought, an idea: To come into the mind of, occur to (a person)" *"Of lightning, thunder, a thunderbolt: To descend violently upon and blast" "To send out or forth (a beam of light)" *"To kill or wound (deer) with an arrow or spear" "To hit with a missile, a shot, etc" *"To produce (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument" "Of a clock: To make one or more strokes on its sounding part" *"to produce a flame with flint and steel or by the friction of a match" *"Of a serpent or other venomous animal: To wound (a person) with its fangs or sting" #An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object as, the azimuth of a star the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.Ĭonsider some multiple meanings of "strike" (v.) (all quotes from the OED): a flap or hinge) that opens one line while closing another, generally to control flow. "Master-valve" - interesting choice of words! Generally speaking, a "valve" is a device (esp. Is there transparent oölite? Or are the egg-stones a plant.". "I'm confused here as to how limestone can be used to make prisms, sinceĪll the limestone I have ever climbed up has been opaque. "(geology) a deposit of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains". A GR theme and a poke at rationalism, which, the more it succeeds in reducing complexity to order, the more it emphasisies (sic) the presence of design, or is that Design, a terribly loaded word for we paranoid.". "Argument from design for the existence of God, that is, proved by the simplicity and orderliness of his thereby presumed Creation. '''Any Argument from Design, here, must include a yearning for Flight''' The sites mentioned include Stone Circles, Standing Stones, Long Barrows, Cairns, Burial Mounds and Churches 440 The term "ley lines" was coined by Alfred Watkins when explaining his theory that ancient sites around Britain had actually been constructed or formed giving alignments between and across the inhabited landscape of Britain. You can view and copy the source of this page: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users.
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