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Contents
Page 105
The St. Helena...mourn
Paradise lost---and mourned. Thematic?
Page 106
what is never to be named directly
darkness? see page 107. Darkness as the void? See ATD also.
the terrible Authorization?
to murder? by the Seamen? to go aboard ship ???
A closer reading suggests that it is the 'swinging boots', not the seamen, whose destinies include homicide; presumably by kicking victims to death, taking their tempo from the 'Brutal Pulse'.
Page 107
no change here is gradual
A Pynchon motif....rapid change is not good, not natural. And, next line, distances should not be vast....life 'goes for nought" then. see page 122
and the Dutch clocks' "that strike without warning" and their effect on M & D.
