MDMD Time & Tide
Scott Badger
lupine at ncia.net
Wed Nov 7 15:52:04 CST 2001
John Bailey:
> Mason reconstructs his meeting Florinda as it didn't
> occur, which gradually morphs into how it did. This is a memory of a
> daydream. Of course Wicks isn't a reliable remembrancer here. I'd be
> surprised if Mason was. But I don't think it really matters. The chapter
> reads well.
>
Where do you see this morph occurring? Is it at, (114.17)"I?" ?...meaning,
"Are you speaking to me???". Which would make whatever did happen a sort of
fakery - a staged version of what might have happened - as, for Florinda, it
was just practice...
Re. Wick's authority, well,...dream pirating is old hat 'round here.
Scott Badger
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