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==Page 58==

'''sepia-shadow'd'''<br>
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.<br> 
Orwell uses this phrase about street shadows--like tea-- in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

'''Herren XVII'''<br>
Modern Dutch spelling "de Heeren XVII," the 17 Lords, board of governors of the V.O.C.

'''Eighteenth Lord... never be acknowledg'd'''<br>
???

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

==Page 59==

'''Slaves'''<br>
Pynchon appears to have cast around for a politically correct subtheme for the Capetown episodes, and picked slavery for want of anything more Pynchonian<br> 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'''<br>
Imperialist strategy of divide-and-conquer.

==Page 60==

'''Droster'''<br>
???

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

'''Jethro's Tent'''<br>
???

'''Nimrods'''<br>
???

==Page 61==

'''Fascination'''<br>
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.<br>
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'''<br>
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'''<br>
???

==Page 62==

'''Kezia'''<br>
???

'''Kerenhappuch'''<br>
???

==Page 63==

'''Imp from Hell'''<br>
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'''<br>
the rattle watch, appointed at the request of the burghers to relieve them of night-watch duty.<br>
"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'''<br>
Free associating, Mason to English to English tea to teapot?
"I'm a little tea-pot, short and stout" allusion? Old song.

==Page 64==

'''Vrou'''<br>
Dutch: lady, woman, wife. Vroom Vroom!

'''fatally but not yet mortally'''<br>
???

==Page 65==

'''''Dagga'''''<br>
???

==Page 66==

'''dorsal 'Scape'''<br>
Dorsal landscape = shapely rear end.

'''five Sprites'''<br>
The women?

'''Asian parlor-game'''<br>
???

==Page 67==

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

==Page 69==

'''Velleity'''<br>
???

'''Rix-Dollar'''<br>
Reichsdollar, a Dutch coin.

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

'''Late Blow'''<br>
???

'''Butter-Bag Castle'''<br>
???

==Page 70==

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

'''Senoi'''<br>
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.

==Page 71==

'''Routs and Ridottoes'''<br>
???

==Page 72==

'''Blight'''<br>
???

'''''terre mauvais'''''<br>
???

==Page 73==

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

'''Jesuits... Invisible College'''<br>
???

'''''Nervus Probandi'''''<br>
???

'''Mr. Peach'''<br>
???

'''Spotted Cubes'''<br>
Dice.

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

==Page 74==

'''Stuffata'''<br>
???

'''dating back to Walpole'''<br>
???

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

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

'''Robert Waddington'''<br>
???

'''Bleak'''<br>
???

'''Piggotts... A long stare'''<br>
???

==Page 75==

'''Bodkin'''<br>
???

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

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