NPPF Canto 1 Menace, Well-Concealed

[s~Z]

winter's code = A dot, an arrow pointing back ; repeat:
                            Dot, arrow pointing back . . . A pheasant's
feet!

"--in what Van called their dot-dot-dotage--" (ADA, p.109/Vintage pb)

Ardis = "the point of an arrow" (ADA, p.225)

The words pale/shade/shadow/gray occur with statistically significant
frequency and proximity throughout ADA.

"Allied to the professional and vocational dreams are "dim-doom" visions:
fatidic-sign nightmares, thalamic calamities,* menacing riddles. Not
infrequently the menace is well concealed, and the innocent incident will
turn out to possess, if jotted down and looked up later, the kind of
precognitive flavor** that Dunne has explained by the action of "reverse
memory"; but for the moment I am not going to enlarge upon the uncanny
element particular to dreams---beyond observing that some law of logic
should fix a number of coincidences, in a given domain, after which they
cease to be coincidences, and form, instead, the living organism of a new
truth" (ADA, p.361)

"He knew that shade and that shape." (ADA, p. 372)

* thalamus = brain structure/the opening to a flower
                       epilepsy/incest

** = precognitive flavor = half-fish, half-honey