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

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, it seems that the narrator (not Wicks) has access to the Minutes,
the official report, Mason's field report(s). So I was in error when I
suggested that Wicks and the family have the Minutes. 

However, I'm not sure the easier formula you suggest works out at all.
Mason's is not the only Mood at play here. Mood--Humor, Grammar, even
Logic, I think. 

Anyway, it all very Stencilized and down the rabbit hole through the
looking glass. 
You note the that Mason's dream of the Native's suicide reminds us of GR
and I agree, but the dream reminds me most of Mondaugen. 

Of course there is also a history that Pynchon has dug up that I suspect
is not much recorded in the history books. 

BTW, I suspect that All Sins Might Wash Away In Tears Unwept (728) is a
ironikal allusion to John's Rev.