MDMD: In Kansas?

[Terrance]

Thanks. 



There's no place like dreams. Even dreams delirium. Note that the
children kid their Uncle about telling and writing his tales while he
sleeps. Later, Mason will dream of Indians he has never encountered and
talk in his sleep in an Indian  dialect none of the men in the company
have ever heard.   One thinks of several Pynchon characters, Thoth, the
old man with something of a broken remembrancer, who dreams about
Indians, the old jazz man in The Secret Integration,
Mondaugen...delerium dreams and grievances. Wicks visits Mason's Grave
daily. And the Verger ("Grant, us Lord, the Grace to stay in thy
tenebrae") has been  nodding at him and Wicks awakes from a dream
convinced that he has been haunting Mason and not the other way round.
And Mason too, seems to have a grievance. Newly arrived in or should we
say departed too, the land of shades, it seems he might be helping Wicks
with something. Maybe it's death. Mason is a rather gloomy man. He has a
lot of pain. He is haunted by his loss, and now it seems, at least in
dream, Wicks is also haunting Mason. The transmigration of souls? Oh
Rocks! Or what? He has mastered disguises Parsonical, impersonations
that took little more than a handful of actor's tricks.  Had Wicks been
the first churchman of the modern and Methodist era to have been hung,
his body resurrected by medical students he would still resemble the
(Pun) Parson/Person telling the tale.