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ATD again, and again. | ATD again, and again. | ||
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| + | of Calcutta, main meaning. See Wikipedia. But black holes, as discovered | ||
| + | and named by astronomers in the 20th Century, are collapsed stars where | ||
| + | light can not even escape because of the pull of gravity (!). Time changes, astronomers say, inside black holes. Resonance with the discussion of the loss of eleven days going on in the text here. | ||
Revision as of 11:55, 18 March 2007
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Roman Whore's Time
English epithet for the Catholic Church, the religion of the hated French; the adoption of "Roman Whore's Time" was Protestant England's long-delayed adoption of Pope Gregory XIII's reform (1582) of the Julian calendar which resulted in the loss of eleven days.
Page 192
Time, ye see", says the Landlord "is the money of Science". Cf. thematically, Time, science in Against the Day.
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Shirburn Castle
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.
Leek, Staffordshire
A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
as the Queen of the Moorlands
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Mathesis
Ma·the·sis n. Learning; especially, mathematics
Time must be denied its freedom to elapse
again, ATD must be referenced thematically.
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Stepney
Joke on 'far, far east": Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.
quite another relation to Time....not...the terror of time's passage
ATD again, and again.
Page 196
Black Hole
of Calcutta, main meaning. See Wikipedia. But black holes, as discovered
and named by astronomers in the 20th Century, are collapsed stars where
light can not even escape because of the pull of gravity (!). Time changes, astronomers say, inside black holes. Resonance with the discussion of the loss of eleven days going on in the text here.
