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==Page 125==
'''against the Day swelling near'''<br>
just note.

'''whiten'd Rock Walls'''<br>
White is the color of the buildings in the Columbian Exposition in ATD.  White is usually the color of the elite in ATD. Also Cf. The White Visitation in GR.

'''James's Town'''<br>
No curfew, everyone full of a good time, ruled by the moon. A Pynchon 'paradise". "Not Cape Town".

==Page 129==
'''no one here knows how he appears to anyone else'''<br>
Americans there, then, exist independently. All status is more or less equal.  A century later, Alexis de Tocqueville will write of the awareness by others--status consciousness-- in society
as a defining trait of Americans.

==Page 130==
'''strange mind-to-mind throb'''<br>
Many believe that in pre-modern communities, the community inhabitants
thought and felt much as if of one mind. See J. James book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See an early Powell movie......[to be researched]

==Page 134==
'''Paradise'''<br> 
Age of Reason disposes of the notion. Cf. search for Shambala in ATD.

==Page 132==
'''violent explosion'''<br>
Internal metpahor re America? Founded with violence, as many including D.H.Lawrence famously emphasised, which can erupt again at any moment?

==Page 139==
'''common acquaintance but lately withdrawn'''<br>
The absent God, again.

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