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

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Thu Aug 8 03:13:34 CDT 2002


Bandwraith wrote:

> The junction
> allusion, though, would explain the ability to "tunnel"
> to the seemingly unreachable giant vegetable patch,
> before crossing the other rivers involved

What's also paradoxical here is that although the visit to the giant veggies
happens *after* the journeying recounted in Chs 68 and 69 the way we get
there in the text is via a *prior*, documented meeting with those "Indians!"

The time is out of joint, as another character who is haunted by spectres,
doubt, and the near-certainty that "there are more things in heaven and
earth than are dreamt of in [our] philosophy" might say.

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