ATDDTA(10) The Sacrifice Card [272:16-27]

[mikebailey]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Keith wrote:
>
> "some malodorous evil heap of slag from the processing of moon-chaste
> silver their night's bed"
>
> Are they sleeping on a slag-heap?

the way I see it, the silver is the moonlight
("by the light of the silvery moon" as the old song goes)
and the bed, bedroom, inhabitants, furniture, anything
not in the direct path of the moonbeam,
is dark, indistinct -- the moon beam is so much clearer
than the other items that they appear to be just a big mound
of discarded visual impressions...

the idea I get being that the important thing going
on is the processing of moonlight
(in line with, in some of those old pictures,
 there's the town, and then there's a great big hill of slag...
which, they're there to process the silver, so nobody
pays that much attention to the slag (which lines up
with the description in GR of industrial processes, keeping
their own little bit going at the expense of the larger ecology))
and the other things are nugatory side effects

I dunno, it's clear in my mind, I like the way he said it,
it reminds me of some moonlight nights of my own

and the way the face that is not a face is a sort of
Iceland Spar triplication, or, maybe a compromise between
Lake's face and the man in the moon...fits