Subject: would moby trifinium be overplaying a dry point<br/>
Date: Apr 30, 2005 @ 01:46<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-386774329">while scarcely able to wait for my personally<br/>
designated return date with october mountain this<br/>
sunday<br/>
i of course couldnt help wondering in the meantime how<br/>
this mountain ever came to receive such a distinctive<br/>
name<br/>
<br/>
& indeed just discovered today <br/>
in the fullness of traipsing thru 5 libraries & the<br/>
internet<br/>
that tho this mountain wasnt officially named til 1915<br/>
the name itself was made up by herman freakin melville<br/>
in the 1850s<br/>
just like moby dick <br/>
which he also penned at his nearby home <br/>
pointedly named arrow head <br/>
while in thrall of this mountain & its loftier<br/>
companion mt greylock<br/>
<br/>
in fact the name october mountain appears in at least<br/>
2 of melvilles published writings<br/>
before it is met with anywhere else<br/>
<br/>
one of these is entitled october mountain <br/>
& was published in melvilles name<br/>
tho there is some doubt that he really wrote it<br/>
<br/>
& it is seemingly impossible to find in print besides<br/>
<br/>
but no matter<br/>
for in another story<br/>
entitled cock a doodle doo<br/>
which is of unquestioned authenticity<br/>
melville even describes the general vicinity of the<br/>
tripoint <br/>
in such a way that it was still recognizable by me<br/>
today <br/>
a century & a half later<br/>
<br/>
& in this fictional narrative that culminates with a<br/>
cock crow upon the mountain itself<br/>
he reveals that it is expressly named october mountain<br/>
on account of its bannered aspect in that month<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
now it is stunning enough to find that a mountain so<br/>
endued with creaturehood & intrigue as this one is<br/>
is actually a literary littermate of moby dicks<br/>
<br/>
but i am most impressed to also notice at the same<br/>
time <br/>
as i prepare to resume the lelnwa try by cosmic<br/>
prescription on the 1st of the new month<br/>
that i have encountered appreciable resistance only on<br/>
the 1st & 11th points in this entire sequence<br/>
& that they are both situated <br/>
oddly enough<br/>
upon massifs & within towns all named for the 1st<br/>
president<br/>
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