MDMD(8) Questions - Tunnels (SPOILER)

Sherwood, Harrison hsherwood at btg.com
Mon Sep 22 13:22:11 CDT 1997


>From: 	David Casseres
>
>Harrison sez
>>This tunneling stuff 
>
>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."

Over-reverberant laughter! 

Yes, I think we're onto something here.... The cavern they visit in Ch.
51 (on a Sunday, no less) is the site for English Church services during
the winter. (At this intelligence, "Mason's Hat begins to move, as from
some Agitation beneath it.") In the cavern itself, Mason sees "a Gothick
interior," while Dixon glims what he interprets as Ogham inscriptions
(los cuales no se pueden *leer*, ¿no es cierto, Davíd & Henrique?),
attributable to the "Welsh Indians." Dixon, oppressed, wonders "what
might become of the Anglican population out here, should the Dweller
[and just who's that when he's at home?] show up unexpectedly one
Sunday, during the Service."

ObObs: The tunnels are natural in America and manmade in Corrupt Old
England.

The embroidery filigrees glimmer and shift kaleidoscopically...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall
What betideth the followers of Paul?

Harrison "And let's not forget the Hawaiian neckwear" Sherwood

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