Presently, as the Inconvenience began to acquire its own sources of internal power, there would be other global streamings to be taken into account—electromagnetic lines of force, Æther-storm warnings, movements of population and capital.
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That's what I speculated and see? I didn't turn mption into an ass at all! Although Pynchon fills out the variables a little more thoroughly because he's Pynchon and he loves to be thorough unless he's currently being vague or abstruse? I guess he could be both thorough and abstruse as well! What do I mean "guess"?! I know he can be!
"electromagnetic lines of force, Æther-storm warnings, movements of population and capital"
Remember, the Frontier is dead, America has just finished its first period of history, technology is changing beliefs, and the population of the world is in constant flux. That last bit, "movements of population and capital," is probably meant to suggest the current "Scramble for Africa" going on by white Europeans, possibly also Americans obsession with mining precious metals and evicting Native Americans from their homes whenever any hint of those metals turned up in their current homes.
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