MDMD(8): Another weather report.
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 1 05:48:08 CST 2001
Michel Ryckx wrote:
>
> There's something weird going on p. 107: The italics are the
> author's.
>
> "what Mason sees, from his first Nightfall there, is Darkness, rising
> up out of the sea, [. . .] (M&D, 107.2-3)
Sounds like Stencil. Right? I don't think he's got a St. Helena
Baedecker though.
Seems rather upside down if he does. Than again, all those waves hitting
the island, like sailors boots swinging, sounds like Dante to me....
after the Tenebrae (advent candles/Orrery) are lit, Wicks is too. Poor
guy.
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