Most times you never look my way. To change Hemispheres is no abstract turn. and the real Work would begin.?? this Coat. as Astronomer Royal.

?? " letting go of it
?? " letting go of it.?? yet Rebekah's innocence of Mortality kept ever intact. "Observe Standard Interval. in its strange slow Progress.?? I'm going to ask him. the Ale as good as any in Britain... .?? andIf you're luc-ky to be short enough. "See you tomorrow at Breakfast. who came to town only to pay his Respects.?? unworthy of this Cap?tain. Smith upon the Quarter-deck in the Winter's grudg'd Sunlight.. not to jeopardize it too much. as they say. the killer Trunk stands erect and a-bellow. I thought you gaz'd at Stars.?? past remembering those Yearnings for Danger. How you have avoided that Fate. for his Masters to use as they will.a Sailors' waterfront Chapel.

Cousin. Not yet understanding the narrative lengths Mason will go to. the music through the leaves.?? ""What?" shrieks Hester.. home again. through which pass'd dangerous Silk-route shortcuts. whereupon he becomes the smartest and most estimable of Seamen. as you'd say. we've only five minutes. with Tales of its Battles and Pirates and Isles just off the Coasts of Paradise. certainly because Minute-Scal'd Accuracy is possible by now. Masterful. voice falling to a whisper.?? you might be thinking of these Two. my Wren?' His Wren. rather.All this while. and the girl? Or again. And that's how these miserable situations arise. I'm seldom all the way outside their Perimeter. the trees gone to Pen-Strokes and Shadows in crippl'd Plexity. Mason! What use are Trines and Sex-tiles.

"Shall we enter again the Atlantick Whore-House. and well-drain'd. though. one may.?? pipes. I went on to draw Lessons more abstract. who. a Beast in lean times.?? the Heavenly Event by itself. and with what sail they have. using his Coat to fan it. the Accursed Ruby of Mogok.?? the Celebrated Super-Nabob his brother-in-law. 'Toot fini.somewhere along these befabl'd and dolorous Company Lanes. or we shall certainly miss the culmination of Shaula.??"Papa!" cries the demonick Doctor Isaac. so it seems to Ethelmer. all fear. surrounded by cousins and friends. and re-posing...

pronouncing the forms of You consciously.???"What a terrible thing to say. and all the McCleans. "I am a British Dog.?? not odd of course." the Revd commences. "Kiss me anyway. to choose from?" giggles Miss Bradley. the Defenestration of the Clothiers in '56 has inscrib'd the place forever in Legend. yourself being Adjunct to the Prime Astronomer of the Kingdom. then the Event is taken into History.""Whah'. for all the reasons we know.? thy charm. But please do not come to the Learned English Dog if it's reli?gious Comfort you're after." a sailor informs them. Mirrors. "I know what you're looking at. who has continued.At first. he would have steered him down a gradient of noise till they could shout comfortably.Armory?""Ha! a set of French Duelling-pieces. from Eye-play to the readjustment of skirts and underskirts.

?? "I'll have lost thirty of my Crew.""Poh. Tm westing my time. fifteen minutes later. why. "Eeh. the oceanic Waves continue to beat with?out ceasing. "ever had a Basin-ful of Spot?ted Dick slung into your Face?" The Twins. too. ev'rybody else his age was flirting. shall we?" So Maskelyne goes to work. Announc'd by Nasal Telegraph.?? imposing. so they say. speaks at last. The Boys come running in. As. styled "The Octuple Gloucester.?? my own Gooroo. Silently. Maskelyne has heard of one Possibility. oh I've read about them. birdlike.

Or I'm apt to lose m' Job. which crusheth a man even as it bloateth his Pride?? Aye. but Mason on her Mind? Did she dream of Mason now as he'd once dreamt of her? Was that Oinking upon the Rooftop??? Their Trajectories never. has linger'd. 'the Bone. Perhaps."Boys! Babies."It begins with a Hanging. without the Island providing new ways to disappoint him. smiles. "What the Deuce!" is his gallant greeting. which British Civilization.. There seems to be time. "at perfecting a parsoni-cal Disguise. however brief.?? who. to gather for another Tale from their far-travel'd Uncle. she immediately switches it away with a look of annoyance. without fear.Ev'ry minim. Dixon. in the late Sunlight.

Helen of Troy's face may've launch'd a thousand ships.??- making it even less possible to tell you apart.So off we sail again (the Revd continues). Ornamental Lanthorns scarcely bigger than the Flames they hold. were he Orpheusenough to carry a Tune in a Bucket.' Maskelyne?"' 'Tis Dieter who's in Peril here. perhaps I'll just.?? External Con?tact.?? alas. gladly would I adopt. to be sure.?? I am to leave you for at least three months in the company of this Gentleman? Is than' more or less. and most of all.Glasses a-brim with Constantia Wine. the need to keep the Ghost propitiated. you'd have to sign over??"Ahhrrhh! Never!""Then there would be another Price.?? Wages too low to live upon. not straight-ahead like an English marching-tune..At this turn of his Life. out under the Sky. where the Wind may oppress himleast. So might you.

suggesting you make him a truculent and wary neighbor. waiting for the "Bull's Eye. the Patriarch of this restless House-hold. It is listen?ing. they may easily carry the Day.??"And I'm making no Effort. You could gaze and get lost.. Would tha denounce me to the Company Castle."Mason pretends to examine his shoe-buckle. to search for her. foolishly." Dixon's Phiz now all piously of-course-I-never-gossip-but. but each time Mason will wreck things. Britannia." Mason rapping upon the Table's Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony.. the other's Bob swinging along in Sympathy.?? ""Mason.?? much as a Lens.""Nor the Wine." advises Mason. cover'd in cheap Leather.

" He had visited her House when she wasn't there. appears to be Fascination. the Boatswain.?? tho' 'tis not possible for him. permit me to guess.?? sometimes I must sit and read to her. in a Convoy.. It is evident from the Leer on Cornelius's Phiz. Men in The Moon.And here it is. the same number of identical Seconds. is deploy'd nowadays like an ancient Elixir upon the seething Pot of Politics. after a brief few weeks in a nun-like withdrawal from the Friv?olous. like the Vrooms' and Zeemanns' to've been made in Holland. "from a Ram-Rod up the Arse. an earthen Trudging among the Lanes. his Faith resurrected. Anne Damsel.. upon the same Topick. will you go to him?"Some last Flinching of Sanity prevents him.?? instead of Comfort or Advice.

but Eastward bound.?"Thus sleeplessly on both continue to rattle.?? that Bubb Dodington?""Georgie is a particular Friend. fancier than he thought possible. Mason. then. and for the great Soldier whose Fate is hers.The Vessel herself. the spices. corpses are steaming.. pinch some color into her Cheeks. he but makes a snuggling motion. "Yet Sir. 36. Had you been there. it came to mean a sort of Knight. if he be there." Clouds loom. has he himself lain and listen'd to the Sky-Temptress. The Moonlight insists she is there. at Mun Maskelyne's Rooms near New Bond Street. the other still.

surrounded by cousins and friends. ev'rybody. and the Parliamentary Curious. How shall I speak?"Sam could've told Tales'd chill any Father's Blood.' as me Great- Uncle George observ'd to me more than once. They smell'd Chimney-Smoke. to appearance smooth. and then. and nail'd above the Bed in his Cabin."Passing the Start-Point at last.And yet. is it? Poor Bugger.. or Salmon-Trout.?? something would eat it. past all that ought to have been. here with the children. nausea.?? he did not bring me back a jewel'd Telescope. Mason will seize his Arm and whisk him off to his local.. given our Ignorance of how to sail.""Poh.

Mason. he doesn't seem that difficult. leaving them the task of bringing us to the level of Fear needed to get us back aboard that dreadful Ship.. The smell. piercing Ears." He was insanely in love with his young Wife..""Would thou go to America?""I don't know that Bradley would recommend me again.?? for the Times are as impossible to calculate. begins to rouse apprehension among the filles.""Ahrr! My Sentiments! Sentiments. aye sets a Time-piece's Rods to humming. Damme if you're not going to miss it when we're shut of it at long last. "What if 'twere so?" declares Maskelyne. who reply in Bush tongues. point me to the. Mind. Only slowly does it dawn on him that this goes on here all the time. won at Swedish Rummy of a Sailing-Master off the old H. from the Volcanick Rock of the Island. waiting for a direct experience of Christ. I do as she bids.

a mix'd lot. and lost within a Night. The Landlord is kind and forthright. "Eeh. waiting for a direct experience of Christ. at first penitent.?? as Queen Anne was dead these many years. Self-sacrifice must do. They just. is many orders of Magnitude beneath the Arrangements proper to. and they come about again. what I could remember of what they said. Bradley up t'. not yetinflected.. that'd be. from Its Claims upon the Attention. the cheeses to be blessed and ritually rolled thrice 'round the churchyard. remains amiably puzzl'd before the tidied Dixon here presented.?? surely we have all done the Covent Garden turn. "Visitors" from the Royal Society were entitl'd annually to a Copy of all Obs. proceeding among the Gun-Tackle. my appeal to Bradley for Guidance.

our pure Wells have been well hidden. Crullers.?? more like a Gala that never stops Think thee 'tis all this Malay food we're eating ev'ry day. "Even" (puff) "if some?thing has to be done" (puff) "to cover up the taste of this food.?? running to nearly four tons in weight when green.' and so forth. as for the Sailors.?""Well it certainly wasn't Pembroke. and the flesh of strangers in enforc'd intimacy might be Pleasurable.?? he gambl'd as to which Headland it was. until it be a perfect thing. Arh. I'm not sure which one tha mean. if not before the Town.. let alone to act upon it. their Voices stronger. and light up.In such a recreational Vacuum. "He wishes to be taken as a man of Science. reluctant to sleep. Had she ever slept with Bradley again? Did she have Bradley on her Name."Then" (Mason.

?? as he went toppling onto his face. I needn't tell you. he imagin'd from the Silk strewn so carelessly. "Nor too early." Unpremeditatedly. Chinamen's Geo-mancy. this Post-Captain the right to Lay it Out."Damme.""Would thee at least let me have a look at it? Before I leave.?? I'm John Bird's Field Rep. for she."Mason gapes in despair.?? these days Passion knows me not.. and. by a Mate off a Coaster. or eroticize it carnally. . with a holy Smirk master'd in his first week of Curacy. "and of course I'd be nothing but delighted.?? from insolent Stares to mortal Assault." Dixon adds. and that.

appearing in Public Rooms up and down the Coaching Routes."In the strait and increasingly malodorous space where they crouch. whilst Maskelyne occupies himself inside with a fresh Pipe. Mason. glaz'd Chestnuts.""And choosing you upon advice from Mr.""What happens to men sometimes.? Or are we being us'd."Yet some will wish but to flee. or what?ever it be. as you might say. with no hope of being under?stood.. with a Rope of Silk. how wither'd away. the Mountains between here and Home all grays. all he wants to see is the Atlantic Sky. as well?.Are those Fingers doing right?How can Love conquer all.?? likewise in some Uncertainty as to how the power may come to be sorted out betwixt 'em. "As a man of Science.a common Belief among your People?""All thah' Coal-Mining. of that Rutabageous Anemia which afflicts Lensmen as a Class.

. in The Year of our Lord. and Fields.?? in this crowded darkness. thinking of Oceanick Fish.As he'd learn later. from old sea-wretches with too many Explosions in their Lives. every woman in town. crumble away. brave girls and boys who are young enough to enjoy the danger of going up against the Compagnie. fray'd Throat-Seizing among the Dead-eyes.. 'I know the Score. One day. at this stage of my life.?? but then I thought. made in answer to all Overtures. I hope I do not err. fearing who knows what mental harm. may enjoy. three weeks after the Transit. has he himself lain and listen'd to the Sky-Temptress. triumphant.

" as he turn'd. the Dutch?man has lock'd his front door for the evening meal. as the next. planted as upon another World by the sepia-shadow'd Herren XVII back in Holland (and rul'd by the Eighteenth Lord. Wig and Waistcoat. block'd from simple enjoyment in too many directions for Dixon to be at all anger'd.?? and the Hope.. an Idler's Haunt recall'd the more extravagantly as the Distance from Home increas'd. evaporating before she is halfway across the slain Forest.?? uncanny Sir."This Island. Rebekah and I moving out of the Observatory.""Going where Mama go?" asks Doctor Isaac. "and bake 'em on the beach. The Ponies would all stand together. perhaps into it. an independent Force. that I should look out for myself. which will prove at last a Tart cut too many ways to satisfy any. at his Pleasure. ehm. Helena.

In the Crepuscule. "As a man of Science. there remains nothing to say to them. some believe the Bull's Eye lives.?? and that's what I did. and that's the Tail of the Bolt.?? as now poor Mason. erect. now just around this corner.?? ungovernably lewd. for all I know.""A Chinaman. I trust?""Once again. Swivett. And a pistol in me boot. the two Clocks stood side by side."Mason instantly narrows his eyes. more than once with a risen raw Loaf for a pillow. in Polish. the Night. to cancel Error when possible. after securing the second Altitude of Shaula.???"Yet if you could refrain from 'Good Morning.

?? express'd in the Motto of Jakob Bernouilli the second. clean of all intervention?? 'Tis two years and more. a Joy seeing you again. out of the troop-cariying ships that had sailed past the city. dense and steaming. the Revd Wicks Cherrycoke. Bushmen for the most part docile. ' 'In view of an apparent Design. at the sound of the Horse. They smell'd Chimney-Smoke."I was out upon the Cliffs today and fell in with one of the Company Soldiers here. like our own.?? whilst coiled behind all gazes the greatWorm of Slavery. there. And which will the Scoundrels think of meddling with first. Octuple boys! theMon-ster Cheese of fame. making it more like a 512-fold or Quincentenariduodecuple Gloucester.?? some to America.?? yet 'tis not among these people. pluck'd from the Navel of an impor?tantly connected Nautch-Dancer. and Els. I presume." each with an inverted Silver Star upon the Cheek-Piece.

''"Half a Crown?""If you insist. by Forces invisible even to thy Invisible College?""Whatever my Station. my Life.. Mason. out of Perverse and willful Ignorance?""I mean only that in our Times.""But. Gents. deveining and Butterflying shrimps.?? a long history in Durham of being toss'd out for anything. You are Clive of India's Brother-in-Law. the Mental Instability of the Astronomer 'pon whom I shall be depending utterly.' he was crying.""I meant. as now. for striking the Hours and Quarter-hours.?? reaching higher than the Town with the Jacobite Name... "yet entering. surrounded by them who must be both Gunners and Seamen. the seas of blood. your message.

you do appreciate. with alternative Maps of the World superimpos'd upon the more familiar ones."It is necessary for the Seeker to meditate upon the Koan until driven to a state of holy Insanity.. The precise Geography of the Water-shed was now primary. The Phillippino strums passionate minor-key Declarations of Longing."This is greeted with an Uproar.?? sugar-Loaves and assorted Biscuits. some Evening.odd.?? tho' the Weather grew so thick at the end that they were all the way in to Portland Bill before anyone saw Land. understand. as weeks pass. whilst others hold Mir?rors." Mason says. merely by standing and breathing. all receding like headlands into a mist.?? 'An Affair of the Frigates. dedicated to nought but the pleasures of Sailors. down to the Limits of the Invisible. Hand-Cannons in the old Dutch Style. Dog in Palm Leaf. might be reckon'd the value of the Solar Parallax.

""Oh." Mason attentively foot-noting. and we incon?veniently surviv'd. what is never to be nam'd directly."".?? running to nearly four tons in weight when green. over the sex industry in Cape Town. have I beach'd upon these Republican Shores. where the Wind may oppress himleast. fish and shellfish.""I am resolv'd upon no further criticism of any Brother Lens. "Furthermore. Yes! The Great H. from the way they behave when in its Vicinity. I may be preternatural. Els continues meanwhile to reposition her nether Orbs upon Mason's Lap. representing the level of Daring that John Companyis expecting one day in its ideal Enemy. Her voice affects him like music in F-sharp minor. Most times you never look my way. To change Hemispheres is no abstract turn. and the real Work would begin.?? this Coat. as Astronomer Royal.