MDDM Ch. 70 Interdiction

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> on 18/8/02 10:47 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> >
> > Why **invisible** Thing? The Lambton worm is not invisible either.
> >
> > Where does Dixon get the idea from? Invisible?
> 
> I think what upsets or frightens the Native Americans (or, at least, what
> the narrator, or Dixon, infer) is the Visto, the absence of trees. The
> "invisible Thing" is the Visto, as if it was a living entity.
> 
>     "Alas," replies the Son of the Forest, " ... your great Road through
>     the Trees .... You move like wood borers inside a Post inside a great
>     House .... " (677.24-28; cf. the way the party is described as
>     "oddly verminous upon the pale Riband unfolding" at 683.25)
> 
>     On November 5th, two things happen,-- the Visto is completed, and the
>     Indians depart,-- as if, as long as a Tree remain'd, so might they.
>                                                         (681.32)
> 
> Once the Visto has been cleared it becomes an "invisible Thing", itself an
> entity or spirit-being of some sort, to the Indians, I think is the point
> Dixon is making.

Not sure about this. I think the invisible creature,  the entity or
spirit-being does not become invisible, but is invisible, its intentions
unknown.