MDDM Chapter 44 "a haze of green Resurrection" (441.2)

[jbor]

Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> A Birth? Who is giving birth to whom?

No-one.

> A rebirth? 

Yes. Nature's cycle.

> Does that mean there
> was a death? 

No. Only winter's end and the start of spring/the Line/the "story" that "we"
had forgotten that we were even expecting.

The boys were snow-bound at Knockwoods' Inn for a number of days/weeks
(383-4) after their visit to Lancaster Town (363), and then went off
separately south and north for a week (393 ff), and now the weather is right
for them to begin marking the Line.

> Spring is in the air.

Yes.

> So is the RC telling the tale here?

I tend to agree with John that Wicks isn't *really* telling much of the tale
at all, although the possibility that he is referring to himself (even
perhaps the older as well as the younger Rev.d) in the third person, like
Herbert Stencil in _V._, does persist.

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