Wordie: Penetralia: Comments

Comment by kmasback, 18 days ago

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:05:33 +0000

"Many who have been to Rooms forbidden the others, report seeing, inside these, a Door to at least one Room further, which may not be opened. the Penetralia of the Lodge are thus, even to those employed there, a region without a map."
Thomas Pynchon, Mason and Dixon, 151.

Comment by chained_bear, 6 months ago

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:56:54 +0000

"'And even here,' said Stephen in the cabin, 'even in what seems the true penetralia of the frigate, little is said that does not become known, in a more or less distorted form, throughout the ship by nightfall...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 37