MDMD(8) Questions - Tunnels (SPOILER)

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Mon Sep 22 11:22:38 CDT 1997


Harrison sez
>This tunneling stuff is just so incredibly rich and loamy and friable
>and arable and full of life-giving vitamins and iron, helping young
>bodies grow in twelve different ways: tunnels as binary analogues to
>Ley-lines; hints of the good ol' TRP paranoia with ancient subterranean
>& invisible connections between the Church and the Castle; a reflection
>of the _sub rosa_ communication system alluded to earlier by Fr.
>Maire...

Oh yas.  And just for the nihilistic fun of it here's a spoiler, end of 
Ch. 51, after M&D have been to visit a limestone cavern -- the last 
sentence has them returning "from the World beneath the World to the Line 
beneath the Heavens."  Nice, especially, with Henry Kingman's shiny new 
reading of "lines."


Cheers,
David




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