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[Toby G Levy]

        Ethelmer agrees to read aloud the chapter from the episode of the
Ghastly fop called the "Capitve's Tale" to Tenebrae. She warns him that
she might fall asleep and he is not to take advantage of her.

        So we return for another seven pages to the first person
narrative of the unnamed woman settler who was taken from her home by
Indians and delivered to a Jesuit college in Quebec.

        The unnamed woman has a dream that is very kafkaesque, involving
a tollbooth on a bridge crossing a river. Here she finally gives her
first name: Eliza.

        Also the chinaman is given a name: Zhang.  The Wolf of Jesus
figures out that Zhang understands the spanish language that the Wolf
has been speaking and determines that he must kill Zhang.  Zhang
determines to leave the monastery and Eliza decides to go with him. She
finds Indian clothes and hopes to be thought of as an Indian boy. Zhang
accepts her company and they flee the city.

        It is winter and hard going but by the beginning of spring they
make it to the Mohawk river and Fort Stanwix (my stomping grounds) and
moving inland discover a group of Indians smoking together on a pleasant
afternoon.

vw#115: Luo-Pan - (from the hyperarts Mason and Dixon alpha:) "The
Lo-Pan is a disc, six or more inches in diameter, with a magnetic
compass about one inch in diameter in the centre. The disc, usually red,
is inscribed with sixteen or more concentric circles, subdivided by
radial divisions, with appropriate lettering. It synthesises all the
Chinese theories as to the cosmic harmony between the energies of
nature, time-relations as indicated by the sun and moon, and the
directions in space from any point on the earth." (c 1995 Pun Yin
Metaphysics LtdConcept & Design by Fortune-it Cookie Entertainment Ltd);
While it functions like a western compass, it is used in the practice of
Geomancy to measure the flow of Ch'i.

Toby