Chapter 5: Paranoia

[Scott Badger]

Paul Nightingale:

> Perhaps we might start to
> think of Cherrycoke as the ampersand who holds Mason and Dixon
> together: he
> quite literally constructs their relationship. Henceforth they are to be a
> trio.

There are several instances in the book (at least three, I think) of the
general phrase (paraphrasing here...)"Wherever two or more of you may
gather, I will be among you"...Biblical, if memory of the last MDMD serves..

> "If ever they were to break up the Partnership, this
> would've been the time." This opening also positions the reader, who knows
> full well that no such course of action was followed.

Or could be followed, imho.  After the battle...after the exchange of
letters with the RS...those that each might turn to have been *reduc'd*, to
only each other.  And what if they had broken up?  Would it have mattered?
If it had been the Mason Line...or the Dixon Line...would history have been
different?

Scott Badger