mdmd(4) - Commentary
Sherwood, Harrison
hsherwood at btg.com
Fri Jul 18 10:02:01 CDT 1997
>From: bdm at storz.com
>mdmd(4) - Commentary
>
>Not only is this chapter eleven, but "a pair of Gallows,
>simplified to Penstokes in the glare of this Ocean sky" (108-21) is an
>example of an eleven drawn on the landscape. This helps establish the
>connection between the number and death, or at least transition.
>Later, in chapter 56, Mason tells of living through the eleven missing
>days, as a sort of ghastly underworld.
A-and 5+6=11!
Yoicks!
Harrison "Shoot--you're faded" Sherwood
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