St. Helena (mdmd(4) - Notes)

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Fri Jul 18 19:37:46 CDT 1997


Re:  St. Helena in Chapter 11

107.2 Darkness, rising up out of the sea
107.34 the more the sea appears to lie above the island

These reversals noted in St. Helena seem to echo those described by Dixon
in Terra Concava, in Chapter 75:

740.12-13  to raise one's Eyes is to see the land and Water rise ahead of
one and behind as well, higher and higher till lost in the Thickening of
the Atmosphere

Darkness lies below the horizon in this northern land, too:

739.29-30  we proceeded, ever downhill, into a not-quite-total darkness



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