MDMD(1): Questions

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

> MDMD(1): Questions

> 8.16 `a parsonickal Disguise' implying that Wicks is not really a
> clergyman? Note how he claims that he should have been hanged and
> resurrected to justify his current `parsonickal' appearance. Perhaps
> the suggestion is that the only person fit to give moral, spiritual
> and/or religious guidance is Christ.

(I know there was some discussion about this so please bear with me if I'm
reploughing old furrows.) 

This passage seems somehow quite important, and I still don't get it.  The
"parsonical disguise" I think I'm comfortable with--basically it seems he
feels he hasn't lived up to his potential.  Now as for the hypothetical
hanging. . . .  The Rev'd starts the story of the hanging as if he is
delivering a valuable lesson--and yet he ends with "[if this had happened]
I should closely resemble the nomadic Parson you behold today. .  ." as if
such an occurence would hardly have changed him at all.  So I'm not sure
what this hypothetical hanging has to do with anything.  Andrew's
suggestion may be the answer but somehow it doesn't sound right to me. 

	Steve Maas