Venery by reason of the wind

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Sat Oct 5 13:02:15 CDT 2002


In a message dated 10/5/02 12:11:33 PM, cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com writes:

<< Poor mason, he has not Dixon's resistance to the Wind. >>

Everything has a price, non? Mason has been
buffetted about some, but his madness and
melancholy have given him a special insight
unavailable to lighter hearts and more seasonable
temperaments. He sees things. He is an integrator:

    "   'Tis a Construction..." [772.17]

He can connect the dots. The biggest question
posed by Ch 78, imo, concerns the nature of
Mason's integration. Clearly it must be related
somehow to Tox's "Commision from God" [684.16],
and later "...a Mobility that is to be, whose shape
none inside this House may know." [759.12]. But
Mason has left the house, so to speak. He can
see the shape of things to come from an outside
pespective, as sick and paranoid as he might be.

regards



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