Byron’s Glowing Filament
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HS English teacher. Lover of books and film. Advocate for re-education through Gravity's Rainbow. ☭
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Part 2 - Chapter 48: Eastern Promises
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 48: Hipster Coffee Shops, the North Line, Fort Pitt, the Wedge Again, Darby and Cope in Disguise, Back West, a Package from Maskelyne
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 48 is up. Mason and Dixon are called back east to finish mapping the northern segment of the Tangent Line.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 48 is up. Mason and Dixon are called back east to finish mapping the northern segment of the Tangent Line.
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Part 2 - Chapter 48: Eastern Promises
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 48: Hipster Coffee Shops, the North Line, Fort Pitt, the Wedge Again, Darby and Cope in Disguise, Back West, a Package from Maskelyne
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February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 48 is up. Mason and Dixon are called back east to finish mapping the northern segment of the Tangent Line.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 47 is up. Mason and Dixon reach the Susquehanna River.
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Part 2 - Chapter 47: From Earth to Sky
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 47: Mathematical Corrections, the Susquehanna River, Lightning Strikes, a Letter from the East, Nathe's Milk-Maids, Galactica
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February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 47 is up. Mason and Dixon reach the Susquehanna River.
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The Nesting Door: Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of my work in progress
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February 6, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Wrote about Empedocles and his idea that everything was built on air, water, fire, and earth, with a little bit of love and strife to bring it all together. And his supposed godhood.
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7 - The Presocratics (7) - Empedocles: The Four Elements
On Empedocles, his notion of the four primary elements, and his desire to be known as a God
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February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Wrote about Empedocles and his idea that everything was built on air, water, fire, and earth, with a little bit of love and strife to bring it all together. And his supposed godhood.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 46 is up. Mason, Dixon, and the survey party carrying the seven deadly sins westward.
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Part 2 - Chapter 46: Roads of Sin
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 46: Overseer Barnes, the Seven Deadly Sins, Mrs. Eggslap, Stig's Anger, Nathe McClean, Archibald McClean, a Letter to Murray
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January 31, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 46 is up. Mason, Dixon, and the survey party carrying the seven deadly sins westward.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 45 is up. Musings on American mythology.
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Part 2 - Chapter 45:
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 45: The Duck Goes West,
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January 24, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 45 is up. Musings on American mythology.
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Fewer than 1,000 subs a year ago today (and it took over a year to even get there). Happy to say we have broken 2.5k and still growing. Spread the good word of Pynchon! Thanks to all for your support.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Fewer than 1,000 subs a year ago today (and it took over a year to even get there). Happy to say we have broken 2.5k and still growing. Spread the good word of Pynchon! Thanks to all for your support.
New premium post for Exegesis of Empire is up: Zeno and Melissus
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6 - The Presocratics (6) - Zeno and Melissus: Paradoxical Pedantry
On Zeno and Milessus, two men who took Parmenides' monadism and both solidified and evolved his thought
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January 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
New premium post for Exegesis of Empire is up: Zeno and Melissus
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 44 is up. The survey party forms and begins its journey west.
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Part 2 - Chapter 44: The Survey Party
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 44: Ley-Lines Again, the Westward Line, Rose Quartz, Jonas Everybeet, the Sales Pitch, Darby and Cope, Matthew Marine, Moses Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Price
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January 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 44 is up. The survey party forms and begins its journey west.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 43 is up. Mason and Dixon reunite and learn of their path forward in America.
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Part 2 - Chapter 43: How to Become a Billionaire
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 43: Newark Delaware, Maskelyne's Promotion, Mason's Wrath, On Elevations of Power, Dixon's Suggestion
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January 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 43 is up. Mason and Dixon reunite and learn of their path forward in America.
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New free post on Exegesis of Empire is up. Anaxagoras (one of my favorites)
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5 - The Presocratics (5) - Anaxagoras: The Cosmologic Gene Pool
On Anaxagoras and his distillation and visionary additions to metaphysical and epistemological philosophy
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January 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
New free post on Exegesis of Empire is up. Anaxagoras (one of my favorites)
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 42 is up. Mason and Dixon escaping Lord Lepton's estate.
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Part 2 - Chapter 42: Our Nuclear Future
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 42: Gambling Losses, a Tale of a Tub, Austra Insulted, Wade and the Astronomers, the Rifle, Escaping the Estate, Felípe the Eel,
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January 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 42 is up. Mason and Dixon escaping Lord Lepton's estate.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 41 is up. Mason and Dixon at Lord Lepton's estate.
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Part 2 - Chapter 41: Das Kapital
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 41: Elementary Particles, the Invisible Hand, Iron-Plantations, Lepton's Estate, Forms of Labor, the Calvert Agent, Lady Lepton, Great Chains, Elite Taboos
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December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 41 is up. Mason and Dixon at Lord Lepton's estate.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 40 is up. Mason's travels north to New York City.
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Part 2 - Chapter 40: Prescriptive Ideologies
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 40: 18th Century Manhattan, Alt-Aesthetics, Brooklyn, the Sons of Liberty, Textbook Marxism, Fair and Foul
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December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 40 is up. Mason's travels north to New York City.
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Free post on the Exegesis of Empire is up, covering Heraclitus.
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3 - The Presocratics (3) - Heraclitus: Before the Cave
On Heraclitus, a man who sought to give us the tools to decipher to complex world that existed in front of us
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December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Free post on the Exegesis of Empire is up, covering Heraclitus.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 39 is up. Dixon travels south to Virginia and meets Thomas Jefferson.
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Part 2 - Chapter 39: Hypernormalization
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 39: Last Night at the Inn, Dixon Goes South, Williamsburg, Thomas Jefferson, Fighting for Urania, Back North, Blindness
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December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 39 is up. Dixon travels south to Virginia and meets Thomas Jefferson.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 38 is up. Cabin Fever at Knockwood's Inn.
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Part 2 - Chapter 38: Laminated History
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 38: Armand Saved, Snowed In, Coping Methods, the Eucharist as Cannibalism, Mitzi and Dimdown, Anxieties and Apologies, Damascus Steel, Dimdown's
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December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 38 is up. Cabin Fever at Knockwood's Inn.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 37 is up. Armand and the Mechanickal Duck.
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Part 2 - Chapter 37: The Advancement of the Invisible
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 37: The Illiad of Inconvenience, a Chef in Training, the Mechanical Duck, Artificial Intelligence, the Search for Vaucanson, the Duck's New World
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November 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 37 is up. Armand and the Mechanickal Duck.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 36 is up. Knockwood's Inn and Armand Allegre.
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Part 2 - Chapter 36: Communal Masculinization
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 36: Knockwood's Inn, Reunion, the Modern Bar, Masculinity and Femininity, Armand Allègre, Croissants
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November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 36 is up. Knockwood's Inn and Armand Allegre.
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Some thoughts on Xenophanes and Pythagoras for my paid subs.
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Philosophy, Part 2: The Presocratics (2) - Pythagoras and Xenophanes: As Above, So Below
On Xenophanes and Pythagoras, one who sought to make God as little like a man as possible, and the other who himself became a God
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November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Some thoughts on Xenophanes and Pythagoras for my paid subs.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 35 is up. Cherrycoke's thoughts on history and his ride in the carriage.
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Part 2 - Chapter 35: History of the World
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 35: The LeSparks Discuss History, Literature and Art, Cherrycoke in America, the Carriage, Redzinger's Story
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November 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 35 is up. Cherrycoke's thoughts on history and his ride in the carriage.
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New paid series begins today on the Exegesis. Might take some time to really get going with the themes I want to tackle, but I tried to explain the emergence of Western philosophy in this one.
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The Pre-Socratics - Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes: From Gods to Reactions
On Homer, Hesiod, and the Three Milesian Philosophers, taking us from a world understood by the mystical to one which would attempt to be understood by the material
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November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New paid series begins today on the Exegesis. Might take some time to really get going with the themes I want to tackle, but I tried to explain the emergence of Western philosophy in this one.
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Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 34 is up. Mason and Dixon view the site of the Paxton Boy massacre.
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Part 2 - Chapter 34: The Britannian Dream
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 34: Field-Records, Lancaster, The Dutch Rifle, Britannia's Dream, America Awakes, the Massacre Site, Turncoats
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November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 34 is up. Mason and Dixon view the site of the Paxton Boy massacre.
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Beginning a minor project which could (COULD, not will) result in a mini series for premium subs on the Pynchon-stack.
Pre-Socratic philosophy to start.
Pre-Socratic philosophy to start.
November 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Beginning a minor project which could (COULD, not will) result in a mini series for premium subs on the Pynchon-stack.
Pre-Socratic philosophy to start.
Pre-Socratic philosophy to start.
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 33 is up. A year spent mapping the tangent line.
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Part 2 - Chapter 33: A Year of Agitation and Anxiety
Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 33: The Indian Queen, Proprietarian Politics, the Harlands, the Tangent Line Again, Brae and Cherrycoke's Emergence, Delaware Swamps, Back at the Farm
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November 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hello! My analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2, Chapter 33 is up. A year spent mapping the tangent line.
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