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'''Him so strange...All that Coal-mining, I guess''' 
? Seems Dixon indicates a belief in polytheism, not Mason's natural allusion to one God--Him. 
Actually they are referring to the Devil. The joke is that Mason is referring to God and Dixon thinks me means the Devil.

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'''As if....suggests an optical person''' 
Unmistakably akin to major themes in ATD.

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'''sepia-shadow'd''' 
sepia: NOUN: 1a. A dark brown ink or pigment originally prepared from the secretion of the cuttlefish. b. A drawing or picture done in this pigment. c. A photograph in a brown tint. 2. A dark grayish yellow brown to dark or moderate olive brown.
ADJECTIVE: 1. Of the color sepia. 2. Done or made in sepia. 
Orwell uses this phrase about street shadows--like tea-- in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

'''Herren XVII''' 
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C. 
When the Herren XVII ordered the Cape government in 1717 to stop granting land in freehold ... heard by the Herren XVII—who ruled in their favor in 1706, ...

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd''' 
Here is what Pynchon may be meaning, as I piece it together. An expert on Holland or The East India Company can correct this. The Dutch East India Company really ran Holland at this time, until 1815 when the British took it back. So, the Eighteenth Lord who was Lord of Holland, had no power, no acknowledged existence. The Eighteenth Lord was: 
Lord Forbes is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in circa 1444 for Alexander Forbes, feudal Baron of Forbes... His [descendant], the eighteenth Lord, fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wikipedia 
 
Okay, so the DEIC never "ran Holland." The British never "took Holland back in 1815, that is when the United Kingdom of the Netherlands took Halland back from Napolean. Since the book is taking place in the 1760s it is unlikely that "The eighteenth lord referrs to anyone in the future. This is not a time-travel novel.

'''V.O.C.''' 
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company.

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'''Slaves''' 
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian He picks slavery because it is the underbelly of the enlightenment. It is the centeral rift that forms along the Mason-Dixon Line, and it is the paradox of America, i.e. libery for some. What could be more Pynchonian than that?

'''set against''' 
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

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'''Droster''' 
???

'''Vroom''' 
[http://onelook.com/?w=vroo*&ls=a vroo*]

'''Jethro's Tent''' 
???

'''Nimrods''' 
???

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'''Fascination''' 
Pynchon needed a personality-contrast between M and D, and chose (arbitarily?) to make M melancholy but charismatic (cf Byron?) and Dixon the opposite. It's hard to see from TRP's descriptions what women see in M. 
The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon is full of passages where Mason's normally scientific writtings give way to poetic and gothic images of ghosts and devils. In the Journals he frequents massacre sites.

'''Portable Soup... Slabs''' 
An extremely reduced meat stock (not freeze-dried, just boiled down and then dried) in cakes or slabs. Heat in a pan of water and you have soup. Most users regarded it as a necessity rather than a pleasure.

'''Emerson... Darlington Market''' 
???

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'''Kezia''' 
???

'''Kerenhappuch''' 
???

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'''Imp from Hell''' 
Cf. Imp allusions and Poe story cited. Three uses so far in M & D. Here Eels impulsiveness is an apt allusion to impishness, overstated as in speech.

'''Rattle-Watch''' 
the rattle watch, appointed at the request of the burghers to relieve them of night-watch duty. 
"First, the said rattle watch shall be held to appear at the burghers' guard house after the ringing of the nine o'clock bell and together at ten o'clock shall begin making their rounds, giving notice of their presence in all the streets of the village by sounding their rattle and calling [out the hour], and this every hour of the night, until 4 o'clock in the morning. From an Orange County decree, 1859 online.

'''English Tea-Pot''' 
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?
"I'm a little tea-pot, short and stout" allusion? Old song.

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'''Vrou''' 
Dutch: lady, woman, wife. Vroom Vroom!

'''fatally but not yet mortally''' 
???

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'''''Dagga''''' 
???

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'''dorsal 'Scape''' 
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites''' 
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game''' 
???

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'''Indifference-Draught''' 
Traditionally saltpetre. Mason wants a drug to reduce his libido.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphrodisiac Anaphrodisiac]

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'''Velleity''' 
???

'''Rix-Dollar''' 
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

German ''Reichsthaler,'' Dutch ''Rijksdaalder''; current throughout the European colonies.

'''Late Blow''' 
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle''' 
???

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'''''karis''''' 
The word was later adapted into English as ''curries.'''

'''Senoi''' 
This tribe is/was real, although I did not think they were known about until the later age of anthropological study. They did share dreams and conquered their fears this way. If a child had a dream of falling, say, when shared with all, the adults would tell him to just fly next time--and he would. Their dream life was incorporates into their whole life and they were a happy, contented people. Researching.

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'''Routs and Ridottoes''' 
???

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'''Blight''' 
???

'''''terre mauvais''''' 
???

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'''two Punches in a Droll-booth''' 
As in Punch-and-Judy slapstick puppets.

'''Jesuits... Invisible College''' 
???

'''''Nervus Probandi''''' 
???

'''Mr. Peach''' 
???

'''Spotted Cubes''' 
Dice.

'''Sector Wallah''' 
"Wallah," in British India, a specialist or tradesman. Sector Wallah, the person in charge of the Sector.

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'''Stuffata''' 
???

'''dating back to Walpole''' 
???

'''Clive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clive,_1st_Baron_Clive Clive of India.]

'''Maskelyne''' 
Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne. Astronomer, Lunarian, enimy of John Harrison, 5th Astronomer Royal.

'''Robert Waddington''' 
???

'''Bleak''' 
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare''' 
???

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'''Bodkin''' 
???

'''History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ''' 
Nice.

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'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

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'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

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'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

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'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

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'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

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'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.][http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/media/mp3/beeV.html listen.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

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'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
A Beer with the taste of coconut; described as a "killer beer" online.

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
A Lunarian is an member of the movement of astronomers who felt that the solution to the Logitude prize lay in the development of lunar tables describing the moon of Jupiter. Famous Lunarians included Nevil Maskelyne.

'''Hostlers''' 
Singular...One who is employed to tend horses, especially at an inn. 2. One who services a large vehicle or engine, such as a locomotive. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman hostiler. American Heritage Dictionary

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
glim jack. Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose. 
A link-boy. Cant. A link-boy (or link boy or linkboy) was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night. Linkboys were common in London in the days before street lighting.
The term derives from "link", a term for the cotton tow that formed the wick of the torch. Links are mentioned in William Shakespeare's Henry IV, part 1, as Falstaff teases Bardolph about the shining redness of his face: 
"Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt tavern and tavern." (Act III, scene 3) 
Sir Joshua Reynolds painted Cupid as a Link Boy and another appears in the first plate of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty. In thieves' cant, a linkboy was known as a "Glym Jack" ("glym" meant "light") or a "moon-curser" (as their services would not be required on a moonlit night). Employing a linkboy could be dangerous, as some would lead their clients to dark alleyways, where they could be beset by footpads[1] Wikipedia

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'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

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'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

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'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

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'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
Diminutive of [http://www.cutebabyname.com/hepsie.html Hephzibah.]Mother of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh Manasseh] in the Old Testiment.

'''smoaks''' 
understands..."gets"

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''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

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'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

'''Mauve''' 
The colour Mauve wasn't discovered until the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve 1830s.] However [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva "Malva"] (the source for the word)or "Mallow" was one of the oldest known plants.

'''H.M.S. Inconvenience''' 
The airship in Against the Day is called "The Inconvenience".

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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 it'''p. 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. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. [http://www.woodveneer.asn.au/whatis-appearance.html Examples]

Also called Wild Heart. 
...is North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood, veneer, and flooring. ... Wild Heart, etc. [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:u2NxGcUgQHUJ:ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/2475/1/FPL_2021ocr.pdf+%22wandering+heart%22+mahogany&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a 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.

'''City today might be an Isle upon an Ocean''' 
Cf. the Earth in ATD: World-Island.

'''and the Nation bickering itself into fragments''' 
America then was, politically, a "Nation" of states, each with their own laws, agendas and even currency. In the following year, 1787, a "national" convention was called for. That convention was gathered merely to revise the earlier Articles of Confederation but chose instead to abandon the articles in favor of a completely new document. The Constitution, of course. On [[1787#September|September]] 17, 1787, the Constitution was finished in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin urged unanimous acceptance by all the states. See wikipedia, various.

'''"Mischianza"''' 
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Philadelphia,_Philadelphia#History EB11-Philadelphia history]

'''Nerve-Lines''' 
1. A line or place at which two things are joined. 2. Anatomy- a. A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain. b. The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection. 3. Botany- The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined. Also "commissure". American Heritage Dictionary

'''Northern Liberties''' 
located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north and the Delaware River to the east.
The district first gained limited autonomy from the township by an Act of Assembly on March 9, 1771. The Act provided for the appointment of persons to regulate streets, direction of buildings, etc. By March 30, 1791 a second Act enabled the inhabitants of a portion of the Northern Liberties to lay taxes for the purpose of lighting, watching and establishing pumps within those bounds. Wikipedia, excerpted.

'''Spring Garden''' 
Spring Garden District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Spring Garden appears in Varie’s map of 1796 as a small settlement between Vine Street and Buttonwood Lane. Wikipedia.

'''Germantown''' 
Germantown was originally the Borough of Germantown, a town in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and is today a neighborhood in Philadelphia, about six miles northwest from the center of the city. The neighborhood has been fully built up as a part of an urban city, but is rich in historic sites and buildings that have been preserved. Many of these are open to the public. Germantown stretches for about two miles along Germantown Avenue northwest "though there is no universally recognized exact boundary". ! wikipedia.

'''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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus Transit of Venus]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit Astronomical Unit]

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'''Boppo''' 
Not in OED. 
"A very deep love. Enduring and never ending." From the online Urban Dictionary, 2005. Does not seem correct in context.

'''Winter's Block and Blade''' 
A Winter's Block seems to be a building for storing grain in the winter.
Blade might refer to the front of a plowshare--a coulter. 
Implication seems to be the juvenile will have no farming to do if turned out.

'''Tenebrae''' 
Darkness (Latin).

'''size and difficulty''' 
Cf "Lot 49"?

'''Jabot''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jabot pix]

'''Darby and Cope''' 
This is the actually name of the Mason and Dixon's "chainmen" on the expedition. 
Darby is a character name repeated in Against the Day.

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'''Secret Relation''' 
His journal? (relation = narrative or account [http://www.answers.com/relation&r=67 def])

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'''The crime of "Anonymity"...Gaol...Exile''' 
With this description 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''' 
Bestowed by 'Authorities', there is the implication in the following lines that one is "owned"---like a collar around one's neck---by those authorities.

'''entire loss of Self, perfect union with All''' 
Satirizing certain Eastern religious beliefs? Or embracing them?

'''Captain (John) Smith, of The Seahorse''' 
a Captain John Smith wrote An Accidence, or the Path-Way to Experience(1626) and offered elemenatary instruction on seamanship in Sea Grammar (1627) an enlarged version of the first book. Cited in a footnote to The Tempest, Arden edition.

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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 it'''p. 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. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. [http://www.woodveneer.asn.au/whatis-appearance.html Examples]

Also called Wild Heart. 
...is North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood, veneer, and flooring. ... Wild Heart, etc. [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:u2NxGcUgQHUJ:ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/2475/1/FPL_2021ocr.pdf+%22wandering+heart%22+mahogany&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a 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.

'''City today might be an Isle upon an Ocean''' 
Cf. the Earth in ATD: World-Island.

'''and the Nation bickering itself into fragments''' 
America then was, politically, a "Nation" of states, each with their own laws, agendas and even currency. In the following year, 1787, a "national" convention was called for. That convention was gathered merely to revise the earlier Articles of Confederation but chose instead to abandon the articles in favor of a completely new document. The Constitution, of course. On [[1787#September|September]] 17, 1787, the Constitution was finished in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin urged unanimous acceptance by all the states. See wikipedia, various.

'''"Mischianza"''' 
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Philadelphia,_Philadelphia#History EB11-Philadelphia history]

'''Nerve-Lines''' 
1. A line or place at which two things are joined. 2. Anatomy- a. A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain. b. The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection. 3. Botany- The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined. Also "commissure". American Heritage Dictionary

'''Northern Liberties''' 
located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north and the Delaware River to the east.
The district first gained limited autonomy from the township by an Act of Assembly on March 9, 1771. The Act provided for the appointment of persons to regulate streets, direction of buildings, etc. By March 30, 1791 a second Act enabled the inhabitants of a portion of the Northern Liberties to lay taxes for the purpose of lighting, watching and establishing pumps within those bounds. Wikipedia, excerpted.

'''Spring Garden''' 
Spring Garden District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Spring Garden appears in Varie’s map of 1796 as a small settlement between Vine Street and Buttonwood Lane. Wikipedia.

'''Germantown''' 
Germantown was originally the Borough of Germantown, a town in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and is today a neighborhood in Philadelphia, about six miles northwest from the center of the city. The neighborhood has been fully built up as a part of an urban city, but is rich in historic sites and buildings that have been preserved. Many of these are open to the public. Germantown stretches for about two miles along Germantown Avenue northwest "though there is no universally recognized exact boundary". ! wikipedia.

'''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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus Transit of Venus]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit Astronomical Unit]

==Page 7==

'''Boppo''' 
Not in OED.

'''Winter's Block and Blade''' 
A Winter's Block seems to be a building for storing grain in the winter.
Blade might refer to the front of a plowshare--a coulter. 
Implication seems to be the juvenile will have no farming to do if turned out.

'''Tenebrae''' 
Darkness (Latin).

'''size and difficulty''' 
Cf "Lot 49"?

'''Jabot''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jabot pix]

'''Darby and Cope''' 
This is the actually name of the Mason and Dixon's "chainmen" on the expedition. 
Darby is a character name repeated in Against the Day.

==Page 8==

'''Secret Relation''' 
His journal? (relation = narrative or account [http://www.answers.com/relation&r=67 def])

==Page 9==
'''The crime of "Anonymity"...Gaol...Exile''' 
With this description 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.

==Page 10==

'''my name had never been my own''' 
Bestowed by 'Authorities', there is the implication in the following lines that one is "owned"---like a collar around one's neck---by those authorities.

'''entire loss of Self, perfect union with All''' 
Satirizing certain Eastern religious beliefs? Or embracing them?

'''Captain (John) Smith, of The Seahorse''' 
a Captain John Smith wrote An Accidence, or the Path-Way to Experience(1626) and offered elemenatary instruction on seamanship in Sea Grammar (1627) an enlarged version of the first book. Cited in a footnote to The Tempest, Arden edition.

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.][http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/media/mp3/beeV.html listen.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
Diminutive of [http://www.cutebabyname.com/hepsie.html Hephzibah.]Mother of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh Manasseh] in the Old Testiment.

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

'''Mauve''' 
The colour Mauve wasn't discovered until the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve 1830s.] However [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malva "Malva"] (the source for the word)or "Mallow" was one of the oldest known plants.

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.][http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/media/mp3/beeV.html listen.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
Diminutive of [http://www.cutebabyname.com/hepsie.html Hephzibah.]Mother of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh Manasseh] in the Old Testiment.

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.][http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/media/mp3/beeV.html listen.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
Diminutive of [http://www.cutebabyname.com/hepsie.html Hephzibah.]

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

Chapter 3: 14-29

2007-02-11T17:39:23Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 19 */

==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.][http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/media/mp3/beeV.html listen.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

Chapter 3: 14-29

2007-02-11T17:36:42Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 17 */

==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. [http://www.amazon.com/PERMACULTURE-Designers-Manual-Bill-Mollison/dp/0908228015 Permaculture Designers Manual.]

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

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2007-02-11T17:34:05Z

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening" 
"The "ha ha" is a below-grade ditch, which acts as a fence. It is used in classical vista gardens where views are to be uninterrupted, and in zoos for direct viewing of large and potentially dangerous animals. It is also a defence for villagers again stock where the resources do not allow wire fences, but labour or a machine can be obtained. It is essentially a deep pit, dry or wet, with one steep wall faced by stone. it can be scaled to size for the species excluded." - Mollison, Bill. Permaculture Designers Manual.

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

Chapter 3: 14-29

2007-02-11T17:20:25Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 19 */

==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD. It's also thematic to those days of the age of reason.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

Chapter 3: 14-29

2007-02-11T17:18:56Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 17 */

==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
[http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htm A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles] 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
Day-Book = the daily written record of events

'''Day's Fatigue''' 
A kind of foreecho, so to speak, of a leitmotif of Against the Day. The working day against which, etc., etc. 
Extrapolating from a letter TRP wrote to his editor after V., in which he spoke of working on three books at the time, some people think he may have worked on his later works simultaneously---discretely simultaneously, of course, perhaps a little like another theme of ATD.

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract. 
The major creators of the Constitution were reading many of these thinkers
during this period, of course.

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
"You've" and "Your" from the preceding words.

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''Aristarchus''' 
Aristarchus (310 BC - c. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He is considered the first person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus").

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan? No, not Satan.
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here. 
Maybe Galileo? Copernicus? Tyco Brahe? I vote for one of the latter two--see wikipedia--or someone else, since Galileo seems harder to forget.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
At eclipse in wikipedia: 
A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles 
Search 5,000 years of eclipses 
NASA eclipse home page 
International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Solar Eclipses 
Solar and Lunar Eclipse Image Gallery

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a minister of religion or of the ministry. 2. Of or relating to administrative and executive duties and functions of government. 3. Law Of, relating to, or being a mandatory act or duty admitting of no personal discretion or judgment in its performance. 4. Acting or serving as an agent; instrumental. From the American Heritage Dictionary.

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' +
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

'''Gate-Ways to Futurity''' 
Another foreshadowing of a major plotline in ATD. And the next line is Pynchon thematic, again esp. to ATD.

'''Metempsychosis''' 
Reincarnation.
ETYMOLOGY: Late Latin metempschsis, from Greek metempskhsis, from metempskhousthai, to transmigrate : meta-, meta- + empskhos, animate ( en, in; see en–2 + pskh, soul. American Heritage Dictionary

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
upstart: Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. 2. Self-important; presumptuous. Amer Her Dict.

'''singing Catches''' 
Catch: Noun, definition: Music-- A canonic, often rhythmically intricate composition for three or more voices, popular especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
Praeternatural: Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal

'''state of holy Insanity''' 
the second time an Eastern religious practice is linked to insanity. Rev.
Cherrycoke, page 10. Ecstasy or real madness or both?

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits] 

Macaroni, Italian Style
1 cup macaroni
11/2 cups scalded milk
2 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons flour
Salt and paprika
1/4 cup finely chopped cold boiled ham

Break macaroni in one-inch pieces and cook in boiling salted water, drain, and reheat in sauce made of butter, flour, and milk, to which is added cheese. As soon as cheese is melted, season with salt and paprika, and turn on to a serving dish. Sprinkle with ham, and garnish with parsley.....From the earliest Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 1918. Still, many years later than the time of M & D, but the first cookbooks just collected
the most common recipes.

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''"a British Dog, Sir. No one owns me"'''. 
Cf. Rev Cherrycoke, page 10.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
???

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant philosophical allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''my old Teacher, Mr. Emerson''' 
Emerson is a common name, but one wonders if TRP chose it to allude to America's most famous Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson of Concord, in the next century? Is Emerson's otherwordly "Transcendentalism" linked with using a telescope here?

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Where the Bee Sucks''' 
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
???

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant philosophical allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''my old Teacher, Mr. Emerson''' 
Emerson is a common name, but one wonders if TRP chose it to allude to America's most famous Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson of Concord, in the next century? Is Emerson's otherwordly "Transcendentalism" linked with using a telescope here?

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Where the Bee Sucks''',br.
A song from Shakespeare's Tempest put to music by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(composer) Robert Johnson.] [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/312.html lyrics.]

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
???

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant philosophical allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Tyburn''' 
The village [of Tyburn] was notorious for centuries as the site of the Tyburn gallows, London's principal location for public executions by hanging. Executions took place at Tyburn from the 12th to the 18th century (with the prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City).
wikipedia, abridged.

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?
isn't Dixon just rambling on a litst of Astronomers and can't remember some guy's name? I don't think he is referring to Satan here.

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

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2007-02-10T21:49:58Z

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==Page 14==

'''Spiritual Day-Book''' 
???

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant philosophical allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers? The rise of the contract

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel that is the result the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

{{MD PbP}}

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2007-02-10T21:47:49Z

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==Page 14==

'''''Spiritual Day-Book''''' 
???

'''waking Traverse was done''' 
Traverse: Here are key definitions that might apply most to M & D: . 9. To survey by traverse 6. To look over carefully; examine.

NOUN: trav·erse ( trvrs, tr-vûrs) 8. A line established by sighting in surveying a tract of land.
1. A passing across, over, or through. 2. A route or path across or over. 3. Something that lies across, especially: a. An intersecting line; a transversal. 4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle. American Heritage Dictionary.

Traverse is the main family name in ATD; Webb Traverse and his three generation family. There are a lot of associations, see any unabridged dictionary, AHD above is online; ATD and wikipedia.
All of the associations are worth looking up and reflecting on with Pynchon, especially as he seems to love the manifold associations, using it also in Vineland, where descendants of Webb live in America in the late 20th Century.

'''another Term in the Contract''' 
The social contract?--- with all attendant philosophical allusions to Rousseau, with whom the phrase might be most linked, and to many social/political philosophers?

Herein is the anti-city position stated, at least.
It shows that Mason only sees the danger and crowding of the city whilst Dixon is overcome by the marvel of the Contract.

==Page 15==

'''Wapping High Street''' 
The area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally "[the place of] Wæppa's people"). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors' victuallers."

'''Motrix''' 
Female motor. [http://books.google.com//books?q=motrix&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=0&num=100 GoogleBooks]

==Page 16==

'''edging away''' 
Pynchonian cliche.

'''the forms of ''You''''' 
???

==Page 17==

'''Ha-Ha''' 
Ha-ha (garden)
The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached. The ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is perpendicular and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed - making it in effect a sunken fence. The ha-ha is a feature in the landscape gardens laid out by Charles Bridgeman, the originator of the ha-ha, according to Horace Walpole (Walpole 1780) and by William Kent and was an essential component of the "swept" views of Capability Brown.
"The contiguous ground of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized with the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity, that it might assort with the wilder country without. " — Walpole, "Essay upon modern gardening"

'''the other fellow''' 
Satan?

'''latest Eclipse''' 
???

==Page 18==

'''mirror'd Lanthorns''' 
'Lanthorn' is a mistaken variant of 'lantern'. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=lanthorn&searchmode=none etym]

Not mistaken, just a choice of spelling; Shakespeare and many others used this form. --[[User:Volver|Volver]] 08:56, 9 January 2007 (PST)

'''Norfolk Terrier''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=Norfolk%20Terrier&btnG=Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi pix]

==Page 19==

'''''Ministerial''''' 
???

'''Integral of One over (Book) d (Book)''' 
Freshman calculus gag. The antiderivative or integral of the function 1/x is the function logarithm of x. Written (integral sign) 1/x dx = log x. Substitute (Book) for x. Answer: log (Book) = logbook.

'''Pistoles''' 
Coins. [http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=pistole+coin pix]

==Page 20==

'''upstart Chapels''' 
???

'''singing''' 
???

==Page 21==

'''Fender-Belly''' 
Fender: a cushion hung on the side of a ship to protect it if it bumps into a wharf or so. Old tires now serve this function. Fender-Belly has such a cushion in front.

'''Coconut-Ale''' 
???

'''Macaronis''' 
A British and American subculture inspired by the fashion of continential Europe eps. that of Italy. The term comes from the Itallian "maccherone" which means "boorish fool" but was taken on by the British to mean over the top fashionable.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29 Macaroni]
They would often speek in an affected manner and mix latin into their speech.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaronic_verse Macaronic Verse]

'''Lunarians''' 
???

'''Hostlers''' 
???

'''Glim-Jacks''' 
???

==Page 22==

'''praeternatural... supernatural''' 
???

''''Macaroni Italian Style'''' 
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Macaroni+Italian+Style 454 hits]

==Page 23==

'''circle of Absence''' 
???

'''fathom''' 
Six feet.

'''Bahf''' 
Bath.

'''Fabulous Jellows''' 
???

'''a-lop''' 
Lopsided. (One OED cite from 1865)

==Page 24==

'''the Point''' 
???

'''Welsh Main''' 
"...in which eight pairs were matched, the eight victors being again paired, then four, and finally the last surviving pair" [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Cock-fighting EB11-cockfighting]

==Page 25==

'''Fulhams''' 
???

'''Three-Threads''' 
???

'''Euphroe''' 
???

'''Hepsie''' 
???

'''smoaks''' 
???

==Page 26==

''''pert''' 
Shortened form of 'apert' (open, bold).

==Page 28==

'''share quarters''' 
Quite possible Mauve and Hepsie are the same girl.

==Annotation Index==

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2007-02-10T20:50:49Z

Jeffersonista:

<noinclude>== Annotations by Year ==
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to put events in historical and temporal context so readers can gain an understanding of how quickly events are unfolding in the text and what larger historical processes are effecting the story.
</noinclude>
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|-
!One: Events before the main story
|
[[1693|'''1693''']],
[[1697|'''1697''']],
[[1706|'''1706''']],
[[1728|'''1728''']],
[[1729|'''1729''']],
[[1732|'''1732''']],
[[1733|'''1733''']],
[[1742|'''1742''']],
[[1743|'''1743''']],
[[1744|'''1744''']],
[[1745|'''1745''']],
[[1750|'''1750''']],
[[1752|'''1752''']],
[[1754|'''1754''']],
[[1755|'''1755''']],
[[1756|'''1756''']],
[[1757|'''1757''']],
[[1758|'''1758''']],
[[1759|'''1759''']]

|-
!Two: The Story
|
[[1760|'''1760''']],
[[1761|'''1761''']],
[[1762|'''1762''']],
[[1763|'''1763''']],
[[1764|'''1764''']],
[[1765|'''1765''']],
[[1766|'''1766''']],
[[1767|'''1767''']],
[[1768|'''1768''']],
[[1769|'''1769''']],
[[1771|'''1771''']],
[[1779|'''1779''']],
[[1786|'''1786''']]

|-
!Three: Events After The Story
|
[[1787|'''1787''']],
[[1788|'''1788''']]
|-
|}

1787

2007-02-10T20:49:49Z

Jeffersonista:

==September==
'''17 Sept''' 
The Constitution of the United States of America was completed in its original form in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Benjamin Franklin urging unanimous adoption by all the states.

==Date Index==

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2007-02-10T18:24:57Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 6 */

==Page 3==

'''Latitudes and Departures''' 
Portmanteau of 'latitudes and longitudes' with 'arrivals and departures'.

==Page 5==
'''[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 it'''p. 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. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. [http://www.woodveneer.asn.au/whatis-appearance.html Examples]

Also called Wild Heart. 
...is North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood, veneer, and flooring. ... Wild Heart, etc. [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:u2NxGcUgQHUJ:ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/2475/1/FPL_2021ocr.pdf+%22wandering+heart%22+mahogany&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a here] is a link about wandring heart.

==Page 6==
'''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.

'''and the Nation bickering itself into fragments''' 
America then was, politically, a "Nation" of states, each with their own laws, agendas and even currency. In the following year, 1787, a "national" convention was called for. That convention was gathered merely to revise the earlier Articles of Confederation but chose instead to abandon the articles in favor of a completely new document. The Constitution, of course. On [[1787#September|September]] 17, 1787, the Constitution was finished in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin urged unanimous acceptance by all the states. See wikipedia, various.

'''"Mischianza"''' 
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Philadelphia,_Philadelphia#History EB11-Philadelphia history]

'''Nerve-Lines''' 
1. A line or place at which two things are joined. 2. Anatomy- a. A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain. b. The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection. 3. Botany- The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined. Also "commissure". American Heritage Dictionary

'''Northern Liberties''' 
located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north and the Delaware River to the east.
The district first gained limited autonomy from the township by an Act of Assembly on March 9, 1771. The Act provided for the appointment of persons to regulate streets, direction of buildings, etc. By March 30, 1791 a second Act enabled the inhabitants of a portion of the Northern Liberties to lay taxes for the purpose of lighting, watching and establishing pumps within those bounds. Wikipedia, excerpted.

'''Spring Garden''' 
Spring Garden District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Spring Garden appears in Varie’s map of 1796 as a small settlement between Vine Street and Buttonwood Lane. Wikipedia.

'''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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus Transit of Venus]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit Astronomical Unit]

==Page 7==

'''Boppo''' 
Not in OED.

'''Tenebrae''' 
Darkness (Latin).

'''size and difficulty''' 
Cf "Lot 49"?

'''Jabot''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jabot pix]

==Page 8==

'''Secret Relation''' 
His journal? (relation = narrative or account [http://www.answers.com/relation&r=67 def])

==Page 9==
'''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.

==Page 10==

'''my name had never been my own''' 
Bestowed by 'Authorities', there is the implication in the following lines that one is "owned"---like a collar around one's neck---by those authorities.

'''entire loss of Self, perfect union with All''' 
Satirizing certain Eastern religious beliefs?

==Annotation Index==

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1787

2007-02-10T18:22:20Z

Jeffersonista:

User talk:MKOHUT

2007-02-10T18:21:06Z

Jeffersonista:

Hi MKOHUT,

my name's Jordan. It seems that we're the two folks working the most on M&D so I thought we should get in touch. I set up the Data-by-date system, what do you think? I reformatted your post for 1787 so that it is year for the page, month for the section, and then date number and abreviated month in bold before the text.

I've been slowly (I'm moving and looking for work right now so I don't have as much computer time as i did) going through M&D, historical data, and Mason's Jornal (I have a copy if you ever want me to look something up in it for you let me know) and trying to place each event inthe book in space and time. I have found a few places where pynchon deviates from the historical reality. some might be mistakes (events happen a day or two quicker than they really did in brooklyn, i think) but some may be on purpose (the full lunar eclipse that disrupts the ware-beaver's competition in the book was set on a day where there was actually a solar eclipse and then we read a chinese story about a solar eclipse- he is playing his story history and astronomy here.

I can be reached via this forum, but it would be easier to chat via e-mail for me: jordan@riseup.net

y'r ob'd'nt s'rv't,
Jordan Arthur Fink

1787

2007-02-10T18:13:13Z

Jeffersonista: /* September 17 */

==September 17==
'''17 Sept''' 
The Constitution of the United States of America was completed in its original form in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Benjamin Franklin urging unanimous adoption by all the states.

==Date Index==

{{MD DbD}}

1787

2007-02-10T08:43:06Z

Jeffersonista:

==September==
Constitution finished in Philadelphia.

==Date Index==

{{MD DbD}}

1786

2007-02-10T08:42:55Z

Jeffersonista:

Chapter 1: 5-11

2007-02-10T08:42:45Z

Jeffersonista: /* Page 6 */

==Page 3==

'''Latitudes and Departures''' 
Portmanteau of 'latitudes and longitudes' with 'arrivals and departures'.

==Page 5==
'''[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 it'''p. 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. 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. [http://www.woodveneer.asn.au/whatis-appearance.html Examples]

Also called Wild Heart. 
...is North America's largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood, veneer, and flooring. ... Wild Heart, etc. [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:u2NxGcUgQHUJ:ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/2475/1/FPL_2021ocr.pdf+%22wandering+heart%22+mahogany&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a 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.

'''and the Nation bickering itself into fragments''' 
America then was, politically, a "Nation" of states, each with their own laws, agendas and even currency. In the following year, 1787, a "national" convention was called for. That convention was gathered merely to revise the earlier Articles of Confederation but chose instead to abandon the articles in favor of a completely new document. The Constitution, of course. In [[1787#September|September]] 1787, the Constitution was finished
in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin urged unanimous acceptance by all the states. See wikipedia, various.

'''"Mischianza"''' 
[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Philadelphia,_Philadelphia#History EB11-Philadelphia history]

'''Nerve-Lines''' 
Also "commissure":1. A line or place at which two things are joined. 2. Anatomy- a. A tract of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the spinal cord or brain. b. The point or surface where two parts, such as the eyelids, lips, or cardiac valves, join or form a connection. 3. Botany- The surface or place along which two structures, such as carpels, are joined. American Heritage Dictionary

'''Northern Liberties''' 
located north of Center City (specifically, Old City) and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north and the Delaware River to the east.
The district first gained limited autonomy from the township by an Act of Assembly on March 9, 1771. The Act provided for the appointment of persons to regulate streets, direction of buildings, etc. By March 30, 1791 a second Act enabled the inhabitants of a portion of the Northern Liberties to lay taxes for the purpose of lighting, watching and establishing pumps within those bounds. Wikipedia, excerpted.

'''Spring Garden''' 
Spring Garden District is a defunct district that was located in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The district ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854.
Spring Garden appears in Varie’s map of 1796 as a small settlement between Vine Street and Buttonwood Lane. Wikipedia.

'''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

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus Transit of Venus]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit Astronomical Unit]

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'''Boppo''' 
Not in OED.

'''Tenebrae''' 
Darkness (Latin).

'''size and difficulty''' 
Cf "Lot 49"?

'''Jabot''' 
[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jabot pix]

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'''Secret Relation''' 
His journal? (relation = narrative or account [http://www.answers.com/relation&r=67 def])

==Page 9==
'''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''' 
Bestowed by 'Authorities', there is the implication in the following lines that one is "owned"---like a collar around one's neck---by those authorities.

'''entire loss of Self, perfect union with All''' 
Satirizing certain Eastern religious beliefs?

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==January==

'''10 Jan''' 
Mason & Dixon visit Lancaster.[[Chapter_34:_341-348#Page_341|(p341)]]
 

'''11 Jan''' 
Mason goes in the morning to see the massacre site.[[Chapter_34:_341-348#Page_346|(p346)]] 

Rev. Cherry Coke's magical coach gets lost inthe snow and ends up at the inn. [[Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_353|(p353)]]

'''12 Jan''' 
at the inn 

'''13 Jan''' 
at the inn 

'''14 Jan''' 
at the inn 

'''15 Jan''' 
at the inn 

'''16 Jan''' 
at the inn 

'''17 Jan''' 
"the Snow abates enough to allow them..." to leave the inn. [[Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_393|(p393)]]
==February==

'''11 Feb''' 
"...Mason leaves the Forks of Brandywine..."
[[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 

'''16 Feb''' 
"...ariving in New-York by way of the Staten Island Ferry..."
[[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 

'''17 Feb''' 
"Trinity Church...where he will attend services on Sunday..."[[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 
"...But then there is Monday Night." [[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 

'''19 Feb''' 
[[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 
"...Presently he has fallen in..." [[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_399|(p399)]] 

'''20 Feb''' 
Discrepancy see 21 Feb. 

'''21 Feb''' 
"Wednesday Morning" [[Chapter_40:_399-409#Page_408|(p408)]]Well, February 20th was a Wednesday. However, the Journals show Mason traveling from Long Island back to Staten Island and then the Jerseys on the 21st.

==March==
'''22 Mar''' 
Passage of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765 Stamp Act][[Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_353|(p353.)]] After this comes the "Stamp Act Crisis"

'''24 Mar''' 
Passage of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_Act Quartering Act.]

==November==
'''01 Nov''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765 Stamp Act] enacted.

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Mason and Maskelyne in London (p257)

==August==
M&D sign contract [[Chapter_25:_245-253#Page_246|(p246)]]

==October==
'''07 Oct''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_1763 Royal Proclamation of 1763] issued. Draws the Proclamation Line.

==November==
'''15 Nov''' 
M&D reach Philadelphia [[Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_257|(p257)]]

==December==
'''01 Dec''' 
First meeting with the Commissioners of both Provinces. [[Chapter_29:_289-295#Page_291|(p291)]] 
'''05 Dec''' 
"Upon the day appointed..."
[[Chapter_30:_296-301#Page_296|(p296)]] 
"...directed a carpenter to build an observatory"-the Journal 

'''16 Dec''' 
"...when word arriv'd of the Conestoga Massacre...[they] were taking their first Obs..." [[Chapter_31:_302-314#Page_306|(p306)]] 

'''28 Dec''' 
There is a date error in the book for this day, see 29 Dec. 
'''29 Dec''' 
It is hard to tell if the events on [[Chapter_31:_302-314#Page_302|(p302)]] and [[Chapter_31:_302-314#Page_304|(p304)]]happen this day because Dixon says that it's "Wednesday Market." But that night on[[Chapter_31:_302-314#Page_310|(p310)]] they find it too cloudy for Obs, which makes it the night of the 29th, the only cloudy night that week.

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==May==
'''09 May''' 
Benjamin Franklin first publishes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%2C_or_Die Join of Die] the famous cartoon showing the colonies as a chopped up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel torpedo-eel.]

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'''11 Feb(OS) = 22 February (NS)''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington George Washington] born 

==October==
'''06 Oct(I can't determine if this is OS or NS)''' 
Nevil Maskelyne born

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==January==
'''06 January(OS)= 17 January(NS)''' 
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'''1764-1765'''(pp333, 339, 341) 
==January==
'''08 Jan''' 
First Visit to the Harlands'[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_330|(p330)]]

==February==
'''28 Feb'''
They day they finish up their Obs at the Harlands'[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_333|(p333)]]

==March==
'''17 Mar''' 
From today until 12 April, they clear a visto south to "Alander Bryant's" land to find the NE corner of Maryland. [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_333|(p333)]]
==April==
'''05 Apr''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act Sugar Act] is passed in Parlament.

==May==

==June==
'''13 Jun''' 
They set out to work on the Tangent Line.[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_334|(p334)]]

==August==
'''25 Aug''' 
The chain past the 81 mile mark while working to connect the Tangent Line with the Arc at the Tangent Point. [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_339|(p339)]]

==September==
Sept-Nov, they work to find the Tangent point [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_339|(p339)]]
==October==
Ditto
==November==
Ditto

'''21-25 Nov''' 
In the Journal there is a meeting of the commissioners at Christiana Bridge to recognize M&Ds work on the Tangent Line. It probably is the flash forward that happens from [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_327|(p327)]] to [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_330|(p330)]]

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'''1764-1765'''(pp333, 339, 341) 
==January==
'''08 Jan''' 
First Visit to the Harlands'[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_330|(p330)]]

==February==
'''28 Feb'''
They day they finish up their Obs at the Harlands'[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_333|(p333)]]

==March==
'''17 Mar''' 
From today until 12 April, they clear a visto south to "Alander Bryant's" land to find the NE corner of Maryland. [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_333|(p333)]]
==April==
'''05 Apr''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act Sugar Act] is passed in Parlament.

==May==

==June==
'''13 Jun''' 
They set out to work on the Tangent Line.[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_334|(p334)]]

==August==
'''25 Aug''' 
The chain past the 81 mile mark while working to connect the Tangent Line with the Arc at the Tangent Point. [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_339|(p339)]]

==September==
Sept-Nov, they work to find the Tangent point [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_339|(p339)]]
==October==
Ditto
==November==
Ditto

'''21-25 Nov''' 
In the Journal there is a meeting of the commissioners at Christiana Bridge to recognize M&Ds work on the Tangent Line. It probably is the flash forward that happens from [[[[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_327|(p327)]] to [[Chapter_33:_327-340#Page_330|(p330)]]

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==Page 328==
'''In the Summer''' 
this puts the section from Page 327 to 330 as a flashforward to some summer in the future. In the Journal there is a meeting of the commissioners at Christiana Bridge to recognize M&Ds work on the Tangent Line on [[1764#November|November]] 21-25, 1764. I wouldn't call November Summer, though.

==Page 329==
'''"A sweetness of immorality and corruption."''' 
This conspiratorial talking about sugar boycotts makes me think that the events of these pages are happening after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act Sugar Act] of [[1764#April|April]] 5, 1764.

==Page 330==
'''Sun, [[1764#January|January]] 8, 1764''' 
from the journal: "Fixed on the house of Mr. John Harland's (about 31 miles West of Philadelphia) to bring our instruments to." However, it appears that they actually returned to Philidelphia on the 9th to get the observatory and tools and then returned to the Harlands on the 14th where they "set up the sector in his Garden (inclosed in a tent), and in the Evening brought the Instruments into the Meridian, and took the following observations..." 

==Page 333==

'''"By February..." [[1764#February|February]] 28th, 1764 
 
'''"In March a Company of Axmen...clear a Visto..." [[1764#March|March]] 17- [[1764#April|April]] 12, 1764'''

==Page 334==

'''Tangent Line''' 
[http://www.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/#fig6 diagram] 

'''"Alexander Bryant"''' 
listed as '''Alexander Bryan''' in the Journal and all historical records. 

'''By June...they are instructed to proceed...''' 
They set out on [[1764#June|June]] 13, 1764.

==page 335==

'''...centered upon the Spire of the Court House in New Castle...''' 
[http://www.newcastlecity.net/visitors/bldgs.html#Courthouse Courthouse]
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=+211+Delaware+Street,+New+Castle,+DE&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=39.659801,-75.563643&spn=0.004072,0.010664&om=1 location][http://www.state.de.us/gic/photos/collections/historic/810.shtml photo]

==page 339==

'''In August they finally go chaining past the eighty-one-mile mark...''' 
happens on [[1764#August|August]] 25, 1764.

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