MDDM Ch. 70 The Obvious Question

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> Note, by the way, Rebekah Mason's "plainly visible
> Phantom" (M&D, Ch. 16, p. 172) ...
> 
> "Her eyes have broken into white, and grown pointed
> at the outer ends, her ears are back like a cat's."
> (M&D, Ch. 15, p. 164)
> 
> "She bares her Teeth, and pales, and turns, drifting
> away, evaporating before she is halfway across the
> slain forest." (M&D, Ch. 16, p. 172)
> 
> And, later, at Dixon's graveside ...
> 
> "At the grave, which by Quaker custom was unmark'd,
> Mason beseech'd what dismally little he knew of
> God, to help Dixon through.  The grass was long and
> beaded with earlier rain.  A Cat emerg'd from it and
> star'd for a long time, appearing to know them"

Lunch time here at the factory, so I'll just pull out my lap-top and M&D
now. 
I'm the only white guy working here and people don't trust me yet cause
I'm new. 
Just waiting for some bastard in Human Resources or Waste Management to
come out here and "let the cat out of the bag" on me. Geee, can you
imagine the looks I'll get when they all find out I'm really an Elect
surfer dude from Long Island? 



Dixon and Mason "lead a dog and cat life" and "live under the cat's
foot." 
Dixon, my girlfriends tell me, is a Dog, but they say that about all the
men. 
Don't think Mason is a cat, but maybe something that the "cat brought
in." 

Amy or Amelia, that black  kitten from Long Island, brings Mason in to
Brooklyn. 

"look what Pussy's brought in," MD.401.7

But she's, not innocent... but too young for Charles. 
At least he says she is. Wonder how Mason's infatuation with young girls
haunts the RC? 
How old is Brae? 

Kinda like that other black kitten at the Cape. Imp? Jet? MD.88.5

And her Mamma, at the bottom of page 87, is transformed into some sort
of demon. 

And, if we can believe Austra, Mamma and her three cubs are only playing
with him, keeping his member rigid with desire while they send Austra to
his bed. 

Austra is some sort of Harpy too. 

And Florinda? Mason, after R's death lives the life of Lust. He's quite
mad and he starts going to the Friday Hangings. There he meets Florinda
(who will be sent, for lady-like crimes) in another one of the many
circles of Purgatory in this novel. They discuss erections and
executions. Poor guy, just a cat in a bottle. 

Nothing consistent here, but the factory is still looking for
volunteers. 


It's dark all day and it glows all night
Factory smoke and acetylene light
I face the day with me head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in

There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done