MDMD(8): Another weather report.

[David Morris]

Sorry,
I've lost track of which whom was first:

>From: Terrance
>
>
>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) "the sea appears to lie above the 
>Island [. . .]" (M&D, 107.35).
> >
> > Then there is the Rain, apocalyptic as ever, or more or less symbolic 
>--which I've never understood, living in a country where there's a lot of 
>rain, so the force of the image somehow eludes me; rain to me is a natural 
>background.

Rain is opression from above.  Incessant and intrusive; it is one of the 
most basic foes of survival.  Shelter has beckoned mankind from the first 
birth.  Shelter's other foe, Cold, is a nearly as bad.  But the two 
cross-married are soothing:  Wet and Warm, the Womb.

DM

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