Eee! Tess Ate Chai Tea

@GrunionGuy
10 Followers
14 Following
167 Posts

I'm a Writer!

Newsletter (currently doing an in-depth, literal, whimsical, not-so-serious reading of Genesis): https://tinyletter.com/GrunionGuy

Comic blog: https://tessatechaitea.blogspot.com/p/index-of-all-comic-book-reviews.html

Against the Day. One Line at a Time: https://atd1line.blogspot.com/

Justice League Europe #16 (July 1990)

Those human eyes ruin the entire vibe of Lord Havok! I was really hoping Lord Havok was some sort of homicidal robot but now I'm pictur...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 42 (1023):

Merle arrived to find the "Forest City" obsessed by the pursuit of genial desperado Blinky Morgan, who was being sought for allegedly murdering a police detective while trying to rescue a member of his gang who'd been picked up on a fur-robbery charge.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-59-line-42-1023.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 42 (1023)

  Merle arrived to find the "Forest City" obsessed by the pursuit of genial desperado Blinky Morgan, who was being sought for allegedly murd...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 41 (1022):

So despite days and nights of traveling, Merle had an eerie sense of not having left Connecticut—same plain gable-front houses, white Congregational church steeples, even stone fences—more Connecticut, just shifted west, was all.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-59-line-41-1022.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 41 (1022)

  So despite days and nights of traveling, Merle had an eerie sense of not having left Connecticut—same plain gable-front houses, white Cong...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 40 (1021):

This strip of Ohio due west of Connecticut had for years, since before American independence, been considered part of Connecticut's original land grant.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-59-line-40-1021.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 40 (1021)

  This strip of Ohio due west of Connecticut had for years, since before American independence, been considered part of Connecticut's origin...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 39 (1020):

Merle had been born and raised in northwest Connecticut, a region of clockmakers, gunsmiths, and inspired thinkers, so his trip out to the Western Reserve was just a personal expression of Yankee migration generally.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-59-line-39-1020.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 59: Line 39 (1020)

  Merle had been born and raised in northwest Connecticut, a region of clockmakers, gunsmiths, and inspired thinkers, so his trip out to the...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Pages 58-59: Lines 35-38 (1016-1019):

"Mr. Rideout, we wander at the present moment through a sort of vorticalist twilight, holding up the lantern of the Maxwell Field Equations and squinting to find our way. Michelson's done this experiment before, in Berlin, but never so carefully. This new one could be the giant arc-lamp we need to light our way into the coming century. I don't know . . .

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-pages-58-59-lines.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Pages 58-59: Lines 35-38 (1016-1019)

  "Mr. Rideout, we wander at the present moment through a sort of vorticalist twilight, holding up the lantern of the Maxwell Field Equation...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 34 (1015):

"Think this is worth going out to Cleveland for?"

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-58-line-34-1015.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 34 (1015)

  "Think this is worth going out to Cleveland for?" ********** Is anything worth going out to Cleveland for? I'd suggest the use of Clevelan...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 32-33 (1013-1014):

Indeed one finds in the devout Ætherist a propensity of character ever toward the continuous as against the discrete. Not to mention a vast patience with all those tiny whirlpools the theory has come to require."

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-58-line-32-33.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 32-33 (1013-1014)

 Indeed one finds in the devout Ætherist a propensity of character ever toward the continuous as against the discrete. Not to mention a vast...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 31 (1012):

It certainly depends on a belief in the waviness of light—if light were particulate, it could just go blasting through empty space with no need for any Æther to carry it.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-58-line-31-1012.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 31 (1012)

It certainly depends on a belief in the waviness of light—if light were particulate, it could just go blasting through empty space with no n...

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. One Line at a Time. Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 30 (1011):

Sir Oliver Lodge defined it as 'one continuous substance filling all space, which can vibrate light . . . be sheared into positive and negative electricity,' and so on in a lengthy list, almost like the Apostle's Creed.

https://atd1line.blogspot.com/2023/04/chapter-1-section-7-page-58-line-30-1011.html

Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 58: Line 30 (1011)

  Sir Oliver Lodge defined it as 'one continuous substance filling all space, which can vibrate light . . . be sheared into positive and neg...