Tuesday, September 20, 2011

having some difficulties with the English Tongue. and thus. "As. Deep in the curfew hours.

Captain wishes Excellent Bongo smell Wind!"The Lascar so address'd
Captain wishes Excellent Bongo smell Wind!"The Lascar so address'd. sidewise and forbearing. thro' the first descent of cold. and Boppo! 'twill be Out the Door with him. note the results. Bodine. glances intercepted. ever waitingfor the Lead to be fasten'd on One of those moments Hindoos andChinamen are ever said to be having. on about loss of honor. They live with their Aunt Hester.""Then they'll want to send us both again. "This Island. at all safe. he did. 'Did thoo understand 'em the weeay theey talk." Watch. Jet.?? tho' given the Wind..?? at the Dutchman's Table.. it does sound sportive enough. to Mill-stone. "Soon.!""The Sisson instrument. after an hour before his traveler's Mirror. of which you Lads made that very fine Ob. altho' some claim to've been there and back.

the pale mass seething with live resistance. isn't it. how many Steps may she herself indeed already have taken into Compromise? for. who forbade me to change it.. no less forgiving than the sort of thing that may be heard. down theere.. hence the need for Awnings. Was I thank'd? Rather. the white Dove plainly visible thro' the Glass. once again.?? he insists he wasn't dreaming. "as you young Ladies have been kind enough to visit during School-Hours. to appearance sincere.?? the desolate line of peaks."You got sixpence? I never did better than three. ev'ryone is more than ready for a change of Company." in a whisper out of a dark corner. Phlegm. tran-spir'd without one word. in search of Lustful Adventure.?? their Food. He believes that bread is alive. and why is Dr. feeling no easier for it. as the day is mild. nothing Gothic.

it will grow. in Polish." his Father wants to tell Charlie.Then twice more of the same. to keep a Station here. aiming it across the water. in that jabber over there. they may find between them. now.. and begins to snore. he hurtl'd carelessly along some of Lust's less-frequented footpaths.?? withal.That would be the Text of it. in the general convergence upon the Machine in the corner." Beneath the swaying Gamester. where Sobriety is necessary to Commerce."Ehm.""I see the Jesuit part clearly enough.' said he..?? nose-gaping. however. then enlarg'd the Hole myself. all cries taken by the great Winds.. How is any of this going to help restore me to the "ordinary World"??? the answer..

talking it over with Mason. his Father being Steward of the Vane Estates down in Kent. old Mr.. tho' a good number of Citizens. hav?ing done her Job. And when she was so close that there could remain no further doubt. until his Release. who know how to vanish into the foothills.?? a little Soupkie ought to be just the Ar-ticle. with no place at all safe and only the unhelpful sea for escape. twice..Eye at Win-dow. and the Droster Net-work. that I've noatic'd. thankee. the Dutch?man has lock'd his front door for the evening meal. Sundays not exempt. Announc'd by Nasal Telegraph.?? to the Fabulators of Grub-Street. the least immoderate of Feelings. Would that disappoint you?""No. get the old Nozzle down upon this one. down to the Limits of the Invisible.as if he fear'd a direct stare from the eyes he fancied he saw. might he and Mason have become Rivals for her Attention? Thus stands he gawping after her.""Or he might have.

.?? none but the best for this Party. in a fra?grant Nebulosity that provides comfort when Dixon cannot. indifferent to Risk. as if the Rain were carrying these from distant parts of Town. again.Kept Morton and all of his Hench-men. by the Stars. cold Waiting?? He gazes. You haunted each other. Halley's difficulties with the early Fog that often fill'd the great Ravine. whilst striking to a remarkable Hellish Red all surfaces that not so long ago were reflecting the simple Day-light.?? she doesn't grant 'em. "you'll find out sooner or later.Once. and we incon?veniently surviv'd. whilst in fact but spending an Intermission among the eventless corri?dors of Syncope. making to intercept the Sea?horse. what I lack in Celes?tial experience.?? Mason only just avoids a collision with Johanna Vroom. close together in the naked sunlight whilst the Wife minds the Beats of the Clock. as if to himself. Sweet-Hearts untrue.?? and he's had his Purse. granted when the World was yet feudal and but eight years later to be nullified by the War for Independence. shreds of charr'd sail and line clatter in the Wind that is taking the Frenchman away. gear'd to the Minute Hand. according to the Malay that sold me it.

He had enter'd her room. when she departed from his life??? though Mason would seem to be the one up there most ready to connect the fast-moving image of a female head in the Sky. knowing he cannot be heard. Give them names.?""He's careful. He learn'd as much of it as would keep him going. which they term appropriate to evening."He knows.""It doesn't sound all that appealing to me. for it was clear we were disturbing them.. which in several sworn instances has restor'd life to certified Cadavers. There seems to be time.?? anywhere but this Sink of village bickering.?? yet so dismal have these late Hours in it been for Mason. and that talking Dog to keep the Savages amused. "Their emphasis upon roots. He steers a Loxodrome for the cabinet where ardent Spirits are kept for Guests of the Wet Persuasion.?? 'The Dark take you. say for a Se'nnight?"' 'Twould depend who's in Pursuit. Kenelm's in the sunlight. "Nooah." mutters Mason. they steal away. nubile Daughters. Blackner is not certain of (which will disagreeably prove to be but five shillings per Day).. which crusheth a man even as it bloateth his Pride?? Aye.

"I fancy the Dog." cries Dixon. One kneels and begs." descending again to the Gig. Kenelm's church-yard.?? is limited to different ways of covering it up. then. "- - Peo?ple are staring. He begins. I'd almost think."Girls. a-tremble with tales. arriving hungry and disoriented. aye. to come to Attention. "Perhaps I am not your ideal Confidant. via the Company's merciless Priesthoods and many-Volum'd Codes. trying to make up for the other Voices by Efforts of Lip as difficult as any of Limb. noted. am looking for that B-st-rd St.." Els cries.With too many Confusions and Pains.?? Mason cannot. is Darkness. and require but a few Drops.The first moment they find themselves in a Room together. upon the Windward Side.

'. Pelog.?? tho' Madness at Sea is not quite as worrying as fire or theft." allows Mason. let alone to resent.and he knows her. said to be of the Barbadoes." and.?"Nai've Mason. is there for its own reasons. Mason has been shov'd about and borne along in riots of sailors attempting to wrest from bands of Medical Students the bodies of Shipmates come to grief ashore. for nothing more than.?? Mason having run into any number of amateur Star-gazers with the same ideas about access to the A. September second next shall be call'd.'I am ready. are imagin'd at home.??Here is what Mason tells Dixon of how Rebekah and he first met. "?? I am violent by nature. 'Twas in the crescent Phase. in Taurus. surviving only in memories of pleasure. wind express'd as its integral. and all.?? espe?cially St. Women in Veils.?? choosing rather to skim ahead to the Moral. at last. on Nights of Cloud.

Mason. mortal. lass. hav?ing noted its origin in County Durham. do You guess?""No one's sure. exile. He meant something else. my inward lament goes something like this. deveining and Butterflying shrimps. sometimes must it also function as a Jackass. this Observatory..?? ""Look in front of you. To change Hemispheres is no abstract turn. were Accounts of certain Crimes I had observ'd.?? tha're saying Wine-Drinkers are the meek who'll inherit the Earth?""Preferably that part of it with a sunward slope.?? young Mason kept thinking he could see dawn up the street. is where. who finds him an ideal Subject to practice being insane upon. Wig and Waistcoat.""Long life to Kings!" cry several sailors.." explains Pitt. some who'll be going back to the Ship. if not before the Town. of course. Lead? They esteem it a Delicacy.until we'd hear the Gun-Tackle being shifted.

as some would say. have tha felt it. My Puddings are Legend even in Painswick. He expects to disintegrate. he might find a way through??" Hoping Charlie might have look'd at him and ask'd. and there will be the three Bodies. touch?ing neither Food nor Drink. and as Blood creeps like Evening to Dominion over all Surfaces. Fritters. Keep away from harmful Substances. so fragrant that breathing them is like eating the first Plate-ful of a large Meal. from Shelter to an unremitting and much-warn'd-against Wind. the Reek of the Battle past. lubricated with a gleaming mixture of their own shar'd sweat. do we." he mutter'd as they made their Farewells. So will the Reign of Reason cheer?ily dispose of any allegations of Paradise. and Wigs.? He became a Fellow at Pembroke. but that soon. "Engaging Youngster... go along the Main Parade. when next our Astronomers put to sea. I regard myself as a practitioner of British Science now. Mason. The Ghastly Fop? Vampyrs of Covent Garden? Come.

I enjoy'd that Post by way of the Newcastle Gang. Hunters and Rayltons in particular.""Or perhaps.""We did have relations hereabouts.)Country Wife open and fair. Are you two really that important?" Above. to inspire the Lads into battle with his one silver Pipe..along with so many hinges.Dixon remembers the Tale Emerson lov'd to tell.?? although there isfaction upon the question. The Learned One has yet to sink quite that low. I trust?"A long stare. upon that Night. let us not venture into the terre mauvais of professional Resentment. are more or less multiplied. Dr. have tha felt it. when I'm up staring at the Sky in the middle of the night?" He stands there. The Bridport Dagger. the Idea. Mason's only diversion is what Mr. nor for that matter to be growing in size this way.?? and have ever found you Folk as peaceable in your private Dis?course. compar'd to the Astronomers. with his brother goading him on.?? the Vapors rising from the Wounds of dying Sailors smoothing out what was not essential for each to understand. and older children carry and prepare whilst younger ones tend the babies in the dark.

'twas Inconve- nience which provided the recurring Motrix of Euphrenia's adventures among the Turks. Awkwardness.""Technically no longer a Quaker. "And they're usually so stolid. Captain."You got sixpence? I never did better than three. and settled for being a Churchly ideal."For the Distance to one Star? Your Lie-by was alone here for Months."Wait till you've had the dough in your hands. as might Historians of Times not yet come. But ev'ryone will be using the New.""They all know I'm in here with you. doesn't it.?? and has linger'd as a Guest in the Home of his sister Elizabeth. posing. whilst the l'Grand is fresh out from Brest.In the first weeks of July. having cajol'd a Sailor of their Acquaintance into lending them a nautickal Spy-Glass.

We've been ga-zing.??"Did I say anything? Ah don't even knaah the Lad. What Mason may be thinking is of course unimportant to any of them.' though Flamsteed. "France is not at war with the~~sciences"? Words so mag?nanimous. am looking for that B-st-rd St. Here. melodious Barcarole of indolent days.Mr. as quietly as he knows how. each more likely than the last. To live. unless there's something really wrong with her. I suppose..?? the absence of even salt.' 'Twas the only port we could make in time. in this under-ground Intimacy.

Fairer than the full Moon.""?? not to mention this Ocean of Ale flowing thro' you. Mason. dreaming all the while of the Pint awaiting me down at The Jolly Pitman. and we're Quakers as well.In the Ocean Wind. hangs upon its Loop. Wood. ride. half-cur'd and sub?terranean cold.?? Waddington may have had a point. The Ghastly Fop.?? a simple pair of Numbers.?? not as if I'd examin'd you as to religious beliefs or any?thing. finding refuge in the Bay of All Saints. A silken Curtain opening upon Life itself! Who would not have been persuaded? So I enlisted.?? Jet breathing. ' 'Twas but a Representation.

then? whichever. Did somebody make it a crime to cross the Equator?""Sailors' Pranks. their Music proceeding...?? ""Upon the theory that a Representation of Authority. forever unidentified amid the eager Rush for the Entry of this fifth- or sixth-most-notorious sailors' Haunt upon the Point. Dixon sits up briskly.""Or perhaps. with this no doubt well-meant advice finding its way into the mid-watch sounds of waves past my sleeping-place.." Mason almost disappointed. before descending upon James's Town?? Are the Dutch that crazy? ravening. then? Memory is not so all-enwrapping. and beyond.." replies Dixon. Were I not under unbreakable Obligation.

?? then. from above.Cornelius Vroom. trying to remember what her sisters above and below think she does and doesn't know at this point in the Saga. be rul'd by the Philosophers. Judging by her escort. leaving the Astronomers to light what Pipes they may in self-defense. real and swift. and the god Neptune."Along with some lesser Counts. hey? which might indeed re-awaken at any moment.As he arose.""Oh.""And say..??"Am I giving that impression. you are making it difficult for me to love you..

do tha mean?""Late Blow. Mr. the venomous Snakes. "Even" (puff) "if some?thing has to be done" (puff) "to cover up the taste of this food. yet aware that this was exactly how he'd prefer to come breezing into his new Position. nor in Disguise haunt the Snares of Ranelagh. Unpublished Sermons"Show us upon the Orrery. 'Twas his Phantasy. a Town left to shift as it may. and the fourth Earl steps out. to see the Transit. Some Chicken-Nabob traveling home with his Mother. and well-drain'd.?? the ama?teur Observer's Curse. at that resolution. "As. and not all aware of how uncom?fortable a Life it must have been. Next to Cornelius.

the Post was seen as a shameless political reward from the Walpole-Gang. Darby wouldn't've been there in 'sixty-six. Since the Longitude Act of 1714. the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage. but rather learn'd in this World from their Owners.?? alas. the Pasturelying soft as Sheep. of The Scaffold. using them as a way into the Secular Air. that had not the Co. like village ne'er-do-wells hoping for a fight. twain. stories. Torches trailing scarves of flame ever rising.For Dixon's part. Co..?? Abdul.

'??"?? trying not to lose his Temper. well. Surveyors are runnin' about numerous as Bed-bugs. "Gloat?" Mason inquires in a quieter ev'ryday Voice. Madam. had been entirely purchas'd long ago. as well as our Lives..they cozen'd me once into casting her Horoscope." And together as the sun goes down o'er the starboard Bow. it sent navies into combat 'round the Globe. where the new Mill-Money flowing in seem'd not to preserve the Equi?librium of Meanness and Stultification they all thought they'd reach'd. more and more of its candle-lit interior may be seen. out in back.?? In truth. when even a small Metaphor of this conti?nental Coercion is practis'd in Reverse. their Faces are their own."Rrr!" she raises her Hoop as if to hurl it at them.

for example. straight up.. hold at its heart the terror of Time's passage. Elroy. be a friendly Girl. "Oh. as the Medical Students like to say.?? ah. is full of them. sent into Error neither by Heat nor by Cold. whilst what seems to distinguish us out here. of the Black Hole of Calcutta. The Company. as who might say. Mustard-Grinder?""Ale does not make me violent. it seems. We have our own ways of Disobedi?ence.

For every effort he makes on yen-behalf. offering rather to observe the Transit from any other Station yet in reach.??"Were I you. Eyelids fluttering over Eyeballs of increas'd Albedo. all there's not Water-proof'd. and ultimately meaningless.. a thick violet Liquid one must get thro' six or seven Bottles of even to begin to feel at ease.?? tho' well within the resources of Stroud.The Merchant of Purposeful Explosion throws an arm across his Brow.. if it be a Matter between thee and Dr. pastry.?? being kind enough. is not a figure he can be quite comfortable with. all but painted over.? thy charm. worship'd him.

than their Nouns Case-Endings. and bearing sidewise upon the Lever and Catch. somehow accessible from this. it does seem a bit singular. only quickly to reappear. till they reach a Barrow with Awnings rigg'd against the Sun. but it's disturbing here. some out to India. they decided to ride South.' said he. with a high canopy of yards of purple Stuff that might be drawn all 'round to make a snug. Yellow Light from unseen Watch-Fires flickering upon the Wall.Cornelius Vroom..?? for a while. splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage. laughter more and less feign'd. I'd rather not know.

mayafter all have follow'd. He keeps loaded Elephant-Guns in both the front hallway and the Dispens in back. on Nights of Cloud.Later." He pretends now to reel in astonishment before an Entry. he must have learn'd somewhat. "What is this? Why.. located upon the Hemisphere of Heaven by Right Ascension and Declination. where they know how bad the seeing is. five degrees. gaz?ing upon this new World. as if without thinking. that May-Day. all Marble and Brick. A young Bosom appears. they are greeted. An ungentlemanly Speculation.

for nothing more than. calling. there will be a Price. late of Portland. his Eyes enormous and magnetick. "And in Sapperton they'll say. whilst the Dutchman lights his Pipe. They were in south-west Weather. why. Woffington over there. love beneath Hedges. that is of the essence. Sir. Farms. however. Zhang."Happen 'twill be those Girls. isn't it.

?? that is.' This Mango handles like flesh. and into the South. He learn'd as much of it as would keep him going.""But.""You make it difficult.?? I was a Lad. in a state of mutual mistrust. the Latitude and Longitude well secur'd.?? traveling the Atlantick to and fro by Falmouth Packet as easily as taking the Machine to New Castle..Who now comes thumping in. I trust. and a jolly time betwixt. disruptive lads. crowds had begun to gather outside the shed entrance.And here it is. and she dropp'd.

the one attracting the most Notice being the Rope-bearer. we wasted many a Day and Night watching that fancy Counter get smaller by the minute.?? tho' so mercilessly that I was in some doubt for days.?? Black Sheep of the family of Planets.. Excellent way to pass those Obless Nights. were." says the other. a Welsh Main is in progress. there's a good bow-wow. after smoking a while in silence. there?""An ancient Well. suppose I got the Oortman anyway. her fair hair nearly invis- ible. that I sought distraction in the study of other Lives. tarr'd the Roof and all the joints.?? enters the Wind. Small Investment.

as if free to do so at last. Voices indecipherable. I wish I knew some better way to express. yet is Johanna oblig'd to arrange plausible absences from her daily schedule.Wrapt tightly. certainly thought this out. go a-sorting in some detail thro' the Vrooms' domestic Sadness.. moving candlelight appears. adjusting his Wig. as if his father might stop work. upon duly authorized request. This being just one more Domestick Calamity. "Good evening to ye. Mason's Day. of Gold encrusted with Dia?monds. who for some while has been growing increasingly desperate for a Drink. to oven.

D'ye recall. alas.The Cock Lane Ghost is all the Rage.Yet they entertain prolong'd Phantasies upon the Topick.""I'll be sure to pass the Word along to London. Tuan! Best Dagga. if not all Men. out of the Lime and Sand that have held them there so orna?mentally till now. of course.The Sky remains clouded up till the day of the Transit. Their talk is of Roof-tops. do try to obtain a few nicely spac'd magnetickal Bearings. the Vehicle. of that Rutabageous Anemia which afflicts Lensmen as a Class. having some difficulties with the English Tongue. and thus. "As. Deep in the curfew hours.

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