Spoiler: Re: Jeshimon

[David Morris]

It's not a shock, and I'm really not expressing moral tsk-tsking.  But
the text's account of his epiphany makes one expect a serious
development of his character into .... something better.

"It might've been the lack of sleep, the sheer relief of getting clear
of Jeshimon, but Reef began to feel some new prescence inside him,
growing, inflating -- gravid with it seemed he must become, he found
excuses to leave the trail now and then and set off a stick or two
from the case of dynamite he had stolen from the stone powder-house at
some mine. Each explosion was like the text of another sermon,
preached in the voice of thunder by some faceless but unrelenting
desert prophesier who was coming more and more to ride herd on his
thoughts."

Especially this part:

"Reef began to feel some new prescence inside him, growing, inflating
-- gravid with it seemed he must become"

and

"some faceless but unrelenting desert prophesier who was coming more
and more to ride herd on his thoughts."

Now, I've not yet finished the book, but this text above really does
set him up for some kind of greatness which is totally at odds with
his sojourn to Europe, and he knows it.

At this point I've forgotten why he even went in the first place.
Isn't there an online page by page synopsison line I can refer to for
a reminder?

David Morris


On 5/4/07, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could it be that Reef is a card shark and a sex toy?  Does this come
> as a shock?
>