mdmd(4) - Commentary

[Sojourner]

At 11:23 AM 7/18/97 -0400, Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:
>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?
>
>

Yes, and as we all learned in our Latin class, "Soma Non 
Dix" or "Dreams do not speak".

*hides guilty grin*