Miles Gift ATDTDA (1) pg 23/24

[bekah]

At 2:12 PM +0000 1/28/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>Now, misdirection's the soul of three card monte:
>
>http://www.ehow.com/how_4410_perform-three-card.html
>
>and it's one of the cheapest, easiest and most fraudulent
>of card tricks, but Miles' gift is of a different order. And a few
>pages later future Cyclomite addict Lew Baslight :
>
>    . . . .found himself surrounded by a luminosity new to him,
>not even observed in dreams, nor even observed in dreams,
>nor easily attributable to the smoke-inflected sun beginning
>to light Chicago.
>AtD 42
>
>      And while talking about how everything connects can
>get you a one-way ticket to Newburgh, that Illumination is
>prerequsite to working in the realms just described.

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"He understood that things were exactly what they were.  It seemed 
more than he could bear."  (same page)

But this is all predicated by the sentence at the top of the page,

"... he entered, all too briefly, a condition  he had no memory of 
having sought, which he later came to think of as grace."

Dally also experiences this phenomenon of grace (pg 70) and she is 
later "misdirected. "  But that's a connection forward at this point 
and thus for another chapter.

Bekah