Chapter 1: 5-11
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Latitudes and Departures
Portmanteau of 'latitudes and longitudes' with 'arrivals and departures'.
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[capitalization]
No discernible pattern? Caps seem accented to be stressed as in reading poetry?
Uncapitalised nouns in the first paragraph include: shoes, slaps, afternoon, raer, years, table, side-benches, branch, family.
Capitalised abstract nouns include: Arcs, Sides, Descent, Dither, Fly.
mis-matche'd side-benches....Lancaster County"
Lancaster County is one place where wood craftsmen like the Shakers and the Amish settled. Suggests handmade individual pieces?
Wand'ring Heart...end of itp. 6
Thematic? One can not 'get to the end'of the Wand'ring Heart grain? Lovely internal metaphor if it is.
Wand'ring Heart grain [of wood]
evidently a real name for a wood veneer.
veneer which is when you doing a rotating peeling cut around a log and then press or steam so it's flat and you can work with it. Examples
Also called Wild Heart.
...is North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood, veneer, and flooring. ... Wild Heart, etc. here is a link about wandring heart.
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Christmastide of 1786 sometime between 12/25 and 1/6. However since the year is mentioned, it is probably betwen Christmas and New Years Eve.
"Mischianza"
EB11-Philadelphia history
Nerve-Lines
If this is meant to imply branching dendrites, it's anachronistic.
Distance to a Star
Not until 1838.
Not true, Lalande got a pretty good figure off of the Transit of Venus data from 1761 and 1769, with a figure of 153 million kilometres(±1 million km) Which is only 2.27% off of the correct value of 149,597,870,691 ± 30 metres
Transit of Venus Astronomical Unit
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Boppo
Not in OED.
Tenebrae
Darkness (Latin).
size and difficulty
Cf "Lot 49"?
Jabot
pix
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Secret Relation
His journal? (relation = narrative or account def)
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The crime of "Anonymity"...Gaol...Exile
With this discription of the Revs Crime of exposing power with the intention of being anonymous and seeking exile as a way of avoiding prison, there is an implication that Cherrycoke's voice is Pynchon himself.
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my name had never been my own
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