MDDM Ch. 5: "an act of Him"

[jbor]

on 8/10/01 4:49 PM, John Bailey at johnbonbailey at hotmail.com wrote:

> Interesting, no, that Mason, the serious one, the city boy, the educated,
> the somewhat more priveleged, is aligned with magic and the Other Side in a
> different way to Dixon. Dixon is pragmatism, magic as a part of everyday
> life, not to be relied on, not even to be thought about that much. Mason is
> the one obsessed, Dixon barely curious. It seems to me that Reason, in M&D,
> is not completely opposed to magic. There is a sort of practical reasoning
> employed by Dixon which is at odds to Mason's spluttering scientific
> Rationality.

Yes, I agree on this, and that a fine dialectic is emerging in the
juxtaposition of these two and their ongoing point/counterpoint mode of
dialogue. Thanks for your hosting of Chs 4 & 5 and on now to what looks like
excellent stuff from Michel on Ch. 7.

best