Punch and Judy

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
> >And why can't Jere get on his knees and pray at the massacre museum? Is
> >it really because people are watching him? This doesn't make any sense.
> >A Quaker who fears falling to his knees?
> 
> Mat 6:5   And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]:
> for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the
> streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
> their reward.
> 
> Mat 6:6   But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
> hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father
> which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Could be or could be he is frightened. Yeah, he's afraid. So he won't go
in Quaker garb or in red coat, he will go as Mason and he will not kneel
for fear of having his head chopped off. He wouldn't be the first Quaker
executed in America.  Dixon and Mason, hold Romantic views of themselves
and their Nation, their heritage. There is nothing in the wilderness
that has infected the American soul, but there is something in the soul
that has infected the wilderness. There is Jabez (the man who prays to
God to increase his coast), their tour guide and the inverted five
points. There is retribution, revenge, resentment, exploitation, bad
history, bad politics/religion. The men out on the wilderness edge acts
as pickets for the Penns. Where are the Penns? In the City? On the
Coast? Or even further East where it is quite safe,  in Europe?  And
these Picket men, they are Irish and Catholic and Presbyterian. Oh shit,
not again! And they kill Indians and Indians kill them. For what? For
Land? Mason goes to the site, he feels himself a nun before a shrine.
The site is roofless and he prays that God will look upon it and make
Judgment, but he fears that the people forget, that they have tasted of
Lethe and continue to forget and that they have no idea the Debts they
are recording in the Book. Great punch line, back to Dave Monroe's
MDMD.2 (the outcasts clothes) and Nightingale on the Outcast, Mason
telling Dixn to go dressed as Harlequin, but he goes as Mason.