MDDM ch. 68 "yet these do live..." (660.20)

[Terrance]

Scott Badger wrote:
> 
> > And the ghosters may be more imaginary than real,
> > but he makes their possibility seem real enough to
> > do the trick.
> 
> The occasional brook trout is all I ever angle for, but these "ghosters"
> sound a lot like white or "pallid" sturgeon.
> 
> See:
> http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatprotection/anadromousfish_descriptio
> ns.htm
>   (down near the bottom of the page)
> 
> or, http://www.fraserriverlodge.com/english/index.html
>   (check out the sturgeon portion of the photo gallery)
> 
> Scott

Cool! 

Or maybe P's pale green ghost fish are de/re constructed from
Polygnotos' painting of the underworld? 

I was thinking that the ferry ride actually takes our boys to several
places at once, sort of like the way Slothrop's ride through the
underground/world is a tourist's nightmare and that we are once in the
fathomless deep or the abyss, prior to Eden and all seven days of the
creation. Who knows? 

Thay ain't sharks that's fer sure. 


As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that
creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the
same quality in the Polar quadruped. This peculiarity is most vividly
hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish. The Romish
mass for the dead begins with "Requiem eternam" (eternal rest), whence
Requiem denominating the mass itself, and any other funeral music. Now,
in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and
the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin.