MDDM The world is the case [WAS World-as...

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 16 11:24:08 CDT 2002



Richard Fiero wrote:
> Mason hallucinates throughout M&D. Have we yet decided what
> that means about Mason?


One the high-low operators here was reading a book and before she
slapped me cross the head with it I managed to read and memorize this: 

People go mad in idiosyncratic ways. Perhaps it was not surprising that,
as a meteorologist's daughter, I found myself, in that glorious illusion
of high summer days, gliding, flying, now and again lurching through
cloud banks and ether, past stars, and across fields of ice crystals. 

I think the speaker is manic. 

Not what causes Mason to hallucinate, but his mind, like Dixon's, is An
Unquiet Mind. 

One day, I think, the waves will blow backward and carry me to a new
world where the waves are perfect everyday.



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