Archive for the 'Series' Category

Playing Cards in Against the Day

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

At 700 pages in I’m beginning to think the book might be a single card game, and not several, and I’m suspecting that it’s Solitaire, though I don’t play the game myself, so I’m out on a limb. But reasons to suspect this include:
–the zero function (getting to zero cards left to play)
–the arrangement […]

Lewis Carroll in Against the Day

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Lewis Carroll, represented perhaps as Lew Basknight (Bas = Car, transposition)/(Knight = Through the looking glass) seems to me to have inspired the style of our first important encounter with the T.W.I.T.s., pages 220 - 227, including numerous references to strange physical laws, a pig of a baby (”scarcely a year old and already four […]

Against the Day Thematic Series

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

These series are now subcategories for posting references and findings by topic. Feel free to add. Each is a page.
These are their descriptions.
Aether, Air, Space
Aether, or air, or space. It is not known whether or not it exists. However it is a continuum and seems critical to the motion, movement, spin, travel, as well as […]