MDMD Time & Tide

Peter Fellows-MCCully pfm at anam.com
Wed Nov 7 02:30:41 CST 2001


>
> 'Reason' comes up a lot over the St Helena chapters,
> especially. Is this  because it is a place devoid of reason? There is a
bit of
> double meaning here, dislocating 'Reason' from 'Sanity'. Which would have
> consequences for the Age of Reason.

I guess the pun on the name of the "most insane" character in the chapter
and a certain
extract of cactus is a bit too obvious to explain "disclocating 'Reason'
from 'Sanity'?

pfm
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