M&D dust-jacket esoterica

[Vaska]

Michael McAulay sez:
>About that dust-jacket: [snip] 
>But there is another way to read it: as s-on, and x-on, representing the
>two approaches to natural terrain embodied by Feng-Shui and the Line,
>respectively.  See, the curvilinear S follows the contours of the land,
>respecting the Dragon.  Whereas the rectilinear X represents the
>imposition of man's grid 'pon it, Sha energy be damned.

You may be onto something real here.  In the sense of deliberate and
carefully set up by our author himself.  

In which case, I'll take up the matter with Mr. P. in person, once we are
both the other side of the really Big Divide, and ask him how come S is
"natural" and X is "man-made."  Many things natural display that X structure
and/or formation, no?

Vaska, in full bloom of post-hangover silliness