MDDM Ch. 29 "a Voice thro' the Vapors"

[jbor]

I think it might mean that the audience members recognise Franklin's voice,
or that his voice doesn't quite 'fit' the costume (he does sound a bit like
an amateur magician or a shonky street vendor), and that the spook-value of
the allegorickal apparition is thereby "compromised".

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on 24/1/02 12:35 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> "Eager Applause, as into the Lanthorn-Light comes a
> hooded, Scythe-bearing Figure in Skeleton's
> Disguise,--tho' the Instant it begins to speak, all
> sinister Impression is compromis'd.  'Ah...?
> ex-cellent...." (M&D, Ch. 29, p. 294)
> 
> http://www.noiseland.co.uk/excellent.wav
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So, these apparently objectified interventions are
>> enough to convince me that the negative
>> characterisation of Franklin *here* - and *to this
>> point* in the novel - is deliberate ...