GRGR(7) Pointy's "sentiments d'emprise" 136-144

[David Morris]

rj:
>138.28 "half of St Veronica's hospital in the morning
>smashed roofless"

>Pointy knew it would happen.[big snip]
>Pointy knew. (139.2-4) 

Yes, this is the logical conclusion.

>The better word than "sinister" (is Pointy left-handed?)
>which haunts him is "Foxes", whispered across the aether
>by Spectro's ghost.[snip snip]

I like this very much.

>Pointy writes: "*We must never lose control*." But, more
>than anything, he has been struggling to control his own
>conscience throughout the sequence. Pointy's waking journal
>(envisaged as commemorating his own noble, life-affirming
>genius like The Book itself, perhaps, the 'official version'
>of his experimental research) represents the conscious
>repression of what his subconscious knows as truth: it is
>the Dr Frankensteins who are the real "monsters"
>-- Pavlov, Jamf, himself. 

Yep, the whole chapter is full of Pointy's just barely hanging on under
the enormous weight of his guilt.

There are a few points I can't figure out though:

1.  What is the "dialectic of the Book?"  I understand the escalating
and relentlessly progressing deaths of the original seven, but how is
this a "dialectic?"  Isn't a dialectic a striving of two different
positions?  How is the "Curse of the Mummy" a dialectic?  Is it the Book
(or God?) Vs. the Seven?

2.  After we learn that hysteria is not, after all, hysteria, appears
the line:
 "How does one feel legitimist and easy for very long about the
transition" (139.22)  Followed by conspiracies the Docs all see ranging
form mild to wild.  What is this transition the delegitimizes?