Fumes and Visions

[Terrance Flaherty]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/science/19DELP.html
> 
> March 19, 2002
> Fumes and Visions Were Not a Myth for Oracle at Delphi
> By WILLIAM J. BROAD
> 

Say, now I wonder what Mason inhaled from Dixon's pipe? Anyway, as we
have been reading in the book, the smoke from Pipes or a glass of claret
can stimulate the imagination of one of the narrators/characters and get
a yarn spinning. I suspect that this is what happens to Mason as he is
holding up the tub. By the way, if you have ever stood under a very
heavy object, holding in place while the boys go out of sight to fasten
this or that or make an adjustment, you'll remember that you can start
to thinking that the boys might stop for a quick puff or a sip or two of
hot coffee and while you're standing there like Atlas holding up a
ferric (Dixon's baby is not only phat but phatic) mass you're sure to
think it an eternity and this sort of paranoid thinking can speed
rapidly through the brain as the blood rushes out of your arms and head
and pools in your steel toed shoes. Anyway, it seems that Mason's fancy
is working over-time. The grin, shit eating, could as easily be owed to
the fact that Dixon left Mason and such a state and got away with it.
And, coprophagous is a word coming from the dung Beetle and as the last
two Bodice ripping scenes involved Mason and the dung beetle and since
Austra is taunting him too, I can't help but think that Mason is simply,
well not simply, but imagining that Dixon is getin it from LL. 

Mason imagines his partner having sex with LL. Why?