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

[Keith]

Nice. It's a hauntingly beautiful passage, eh?

FWIW, a chaste moon can refer to the new (virginal) moon or, in the  
lunar calendar the March full moon is the Chaste Moon.


On Jun 1, 2007, at 7:45 AM, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:


  Keith
>
> Or it could be a reference to the fact that their marriage bed is
> defiled by the fact that Deuce killed Lake's father for reasons
>

YES, that fits too...a splitting of realities, or assertions:
Lake and Deuce asserting a reality in which their love is important
and overrides conscience, a consensus that only they seem to share,
and Sloat's horning in emphasizes that even he doesn't place it
in any sacred category - their love is the silver (chaste like Diana,
the huntress, goddess of the moon) that they mine and refine,
a secondary and inferior precious metal (even by statute) as moonlight
is cold and inferior to sunlight (daylit fictions)

as versus what their lovelight/moonlight/silver doesn't illuminate
(her family, the disapproval of their friends) the unpleasant fact
that they are linked by the assertion of murder to the mines,
to Sloat, to dead Webb, to everything and everyone in the
larger society that intrudes on their would-be idyll
like malodorous slag, discarded
in the process of their seeking each other...

a circle of Hell...