MDDM Last Transit Ch. 74 (Mason's Melancholy)

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> 
> > If only Mason would pick up the damned slane and dig, but he can't.
> 
> But he does dig, with the *Krees*, or dream-dagger, from the Cape, and is
> able to relocate the holy well for the locals:
> 
>     He helps them to dig. (725.13)
> 
> best

And so he does. But what work is he about? 

Turning and Turning in the Benedictine's Wheel of Seasons like their
mechanical cuckoo? 

Or is he Dreaming? 

Always felt like dreaming to me, the bog. 

No ordinary dream. 

http://www.druidry.org/obod/text/lewes/archive/mara-sacredwaters.html



http://www.brendans-island.com/brendan.htm



http://homepage.tinet.ie/~caoim/oileain/glora.html

In an ordinary dream she comes to him and tells him he only recovered a
representation and this troubles him. 

Then he is initiated. 

We get a look at what seems to be the letter. He and Mask are reading it
over. Mask is concerned. Bloody language is rather strange. In Leo he
beneath the index he journeys to find an Infant, that must, again, 
re-make the world. A sign from heaven and from earth. 

He will drive Mask crazy, like Hamlet, things fall apart. 


"The regularization of time, the increase in mechanical
  power, the multiplication of goods,  the contraction of
  time and space, the standardization of performance and
  product, the  transfer of skill to automata, and the
  increase in collective interdependence --these, then, are the chief
  characteristics of our machine civilization. They are the
  basis of the particular forms of life and modes of
  expression that distinguish Western Civilization, at least
  in degree, from the various earlier civilizations that
  preceded it.
                   Lewis Mumford, Technic and Civilization, p. 281  

"The application of quantitative methods of thought to the
  study of nature had its first manifestation in the regular
  measurement of time; and the new mechanical conception of
  time arose in part out of the routine of the monastery. 
  Alfred Whitehead has emphasized the importance of the
  scholastic belief in the universe ordered by God as one of
  the foundations of modern physics: but behind that belief
  was the presence of order in the institutions of the Church
  itself." 
                          --Mumford, Technics and Civilization

  The Benedictines, the working order, were, according to
  Coulton, Sombart, others, the original founders of modern
  Capitalism. Mumfords says, they "gave human enterprise the
  regular collective beat and rhythm of the machine
Eternity
  ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human
  actions."