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'''"to go anywhere is ever to ''de''scend."'''
 
'''"to go anywhere is ever to ''de''scend."'''
  
The partially italicized word might be a reference, or at least could've been influenced by Richard Farina, who used partially italicized words pretty often in 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me'.
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The partially italicized word might be a reference, or at least could've been influenced by Richard Farina, who used partially italicized words quite often in 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.'

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"[T]he Earth's Surface [...] began to curve sharply inward, leaving a great circum-polar Emptiness [...] toward which our path was taking us [...] And 'twas so that we enter'd, by its great northern Portal, upon the inner Surface of the Earth."

Thus, Dixon relates to Mason his journey into Hollow Earth, guided by what seems to be an extraterrestrial being. See p.548.

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"to go anywhere is ever to descend."

The partially italicized word might be a reference, or at least could've been influenced by Richard Farina, who used partially italicized words quite often in 'Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me.'

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