mdmd(4) - Commentary

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Sherwood, Harrison wrote:
> >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!

The words "five, six, eleven" contain the numbers "v, vi, xi."  The
remaining letters spell "seen flee."  Just who or what was "seen [to]
flee" from that ghastly underworld?