Chapter 19: 190-198
Contents
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Roman Whore's Time
English epithet for the Catholic Church, the religion of the hated French; the adoption of "Roman Whore's Time" was Protestant England's long-delayed adoption of Pope Gregory XIII's reform (1582) of the Julian calendar which resulted in the loss of eleven days.
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Time, ye see", says the Landlord "is the money of Science". Cf. thematically, Time, science in Against the Day.
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Shirburn Castle
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.
Leek, Staffordshire
A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
as the Queen of the Moorlands
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Mathesis
Ma·the·sis n. Learning; especially, mathematics
See p. 134, first mention.
Time must be denied its freedom to elapse
again, ATD must be referenced thematically.
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Stepney
Joke on 'far, far east": Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.
quite another relation to Time....not...the terror of time's passage
Major themes of Against the Day include time travel and time vs. timelessness.
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Black Hole
of Calcutta, main meaning. See Wikipedia. But black holes, as discovered
and named by astronomers in the 20th Century, are collapsed stars where
light can not even escape because of the pull of gravity (!). Time changes, astronomers say, inside black holes. Resonance with the discussion of the loss of eleven days going on in the text here.
the Hoogli
Hoogli River, a distributary of the Ganges River, both in India.
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Albedo
n. , pl. -dos . The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.
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the Defenestration of the Clothiers in 1956
Clothiers were recorded in 1685, 1689, 1692, 1712, and 1756 and the trade apparently ceased towards the end of the 18th century.- Economic History of England
