atddta 32:summary part 1

grladams at teleport.com grladams at teleport.com
Tue May 6 00:57:29 CDT 2008


Well thanks Bekah, thanks for the threads on Reef's dreams, transcendence,
and co-consciousness. That was all quite wonderful and I'll just start by
summarizing the next chapter.

Dally goes from a place of impending chaos, Venice to a place of lesser
known and perhaps maybe more white collar chaos, trades one form of boudoir
slavery for another. But that's her day job, whereas she's scouted for a
side job in modelling again... Hunter has been allowing light into his
paintings, noted abscences-- complex bright vacuous points in the canvas
with a (familiar to us by now) numbing energy, a message one might say, in
his paintings. We can play that this absence is more of the unspeakable.
Does it represent a loss, our loss of Tancredi? Who only wanted to bring an
unnamed shiny orb towards Vibe.. A reality whose timeline did not form.

More reduction in this way is possible as we emerge into a scenery dotted
with monuments-towards something, a graveyard, to Dally's introduction to
Arturo Naunt, a British sculptor and his popular allegorical statues, this
time, his Angel of Death with Dally as the Model. AOD's are not generally
good omens for the characters grouped with them.

Jill

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