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

[jbor]

Terrance wrote:

> Yes, thanks, how silly of me, of course they are talking about the
> report not the letter. Also, it seems that Wicks has a copy of the
> Minutes kept at the meeting December 15 1768.

Not sure about this either. It seems that Mason's more esoteric ruminations
(726.1-11) will be left out of the final report as too controversial and
likely to provoke "objections from the Clergy" (726.13), as also will his
comparison of the Northern Lights to "jell'd Blood" (726.30).

Again, I think it's easier to leave Wicks to one side after that brief
interpolation at 721 rather than trying to factor him in as the narrator of
the entire chapter. Logically-speaking, it's hard to imagine how he could
have had access to what was ultimately left out of Mason's official report,
and there's certainly no explicit indication in the text that he did.

best
 
> Wicks has a copy of Mask's letter dated Nov. 9th. In it he replies to
> Mason's letter of Oct. 15. But they  don't have Mason's letter for this
> date or any of them, although his letters are said to be extant.
> 
> They speculate, attempting to extrapolate what Mason may have written in
> the letter Mask replies to. Something about God, above and below and the
> invisible and Taylor....
> 
> At 726 Mask and Mason discuss the language/content of Mason's report.