Venery by reason of the wind
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Oct 5 14:35:39 CDT 2002
Bandwraith wrote:
> 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.
Yes. I think the smell Ben Franklin smells when he visits Mason's house is
the smell of death. And, despite what Mary thinks (re. "his Madness, which
grows ever less hopeful" 761), I don't think the narrative means to suggest
that Mason is insane at the end.
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