atdtda: 31 - pg 881

[Mark Kohut]

Uh, Uh, yeahp....
   
  But I meant THIS section now being so finely hosted by Bekah or these sections recently hosted with Cyprian and relationships.................

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  Mark Kohut wrote:
> I've gotta figure out TRPs overarching perspective on all this.
>

which one? (-;
If we consider the characters' movements as plot lines,
and then posit the book as a curved space, they could become arcs (or
loxodromes)

The arch that has been calling to me has to do with,
well, Tesla - visionary -- from Velebit
wrote down his discoveries enough to patent them, but
not enough to explain them (US Gov't seized his effects upon his death btw)

Vlado, also from the Mt Velebit area...knowing its caves and
underground rivers and the sounds of its belltowers
...his book of the Masked
(besides representing AtD itself - good call, Bekah!)
might also point to Tesla's work

from which Kit was seduced away and which
Yashmeen doesn't pursue for emotional reasons
(missing Vlado, possessor and exemplar of all the worldly passions that Tesla
apparently had renounced or was born without)

-- in this arc, the big theme or teaser is how there may be a mathematical
way to express Tesla's vision and it may have to do with
Riemann/zeta/quaternions...

now then - Cyprian - at the Masked (as in Book of the)
Ball - wearing Yashmeen's hair -- attracts the love of Reef
(masked as lust?)

completes their triangle, as he already has completed the
triangle of Vlado and Yashmeen by (I guess...) accepting the
Book of the Masked

which is never mentioned again. Yet one may be fairly sure
it was among the very few accoutrements in Cyprian's monastic cell...

His acceptance of monastic rule resolves the suspended chord
sounded by the trio attending Carnesalve instead of Carnevale?


       
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