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[Toby G Levy]

        Luise attempts to tell Peter about Armand but he is too full of
religious thought to listen.  Luise tells an unidentified woman she is
talking to about Peter's ability to make Golems, or Jewish automatons,
that perform useful household tasks such as peeling and coring apples.

        There is a lengthy passage from Wicks' spiritual day-book in
which he talks about the varieties of religious people in Pennsylvania
and how they live alongside the profane.

        Back in the family room of the LeSpark house, Depugh relates a
sermon he heard in a church that was attended by German mystics. It
seemed like all mathematics to him.

        Ethelmer and Wicks try to make sense of the sermon as told by
Depugh. They speculate on mapping heaven and hell and assume that via
this construction Mason and Dixon must have been in hell, but Tenebrae
interjects to say that they could just as easily be in heaven, and
rejects the men's need for symmetry.  Here chapter 49 draws to a close.

Toby