MDDM Conversations at The Rabbi of Prague

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Thu Jun 27 16:32:16 CDT 2002


"And....do you folk wear Special Hats, anything like that?" inquires Dixon.
It sounds enough like the Frenchman's Duck to make him cautious. (485.30)

And the anonymous speaker who immediately agrees with the one you quote
below, "a queer, uncollected sort of Townsman", seems to be criticising
Franklin for stopping the Paxton Boys and their posse from riding into
Philadelphia to "sack the Quaker Rome". I'm not sure that I identify wholly
with all of these spoken sentiments, or that this one snip of dialogue
speaks for the text as a whole.

best

on 28/6/02 5:52 AM, Doug Millison at millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> 
> "this Age sees a corruption and disabling of the ancient Magick.
> Projectors, Brokers of Capital, Insurancers, Peddlers upon a global Scale ,
> Enterprisers and Quacks,-- these are the last poor fallen and feckless
> inheritors of a Knowledge they can never use, but in the service of Greed.
> The coming Rebellion istheirs,-- Franklin andthat Lot,--andHeaven help the
> rest of us, if they prevail." (M&D 487,488)




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