TMoP, Chap 11..The Walk

[Mark Kohut]

p. 140...D.'s intensity...desperation..."in and out of madness like a fly
at an open window.....

He wants his son back...D. says to her "you can bring him back"..???meaning here?....

Then she says he is a MASTER, an artist. He can bring Pavel back...!!
The artist resurrects, so to speak. 

He associates that word with metal...tempering of swords, the casting of bells. A master blacksmith, a foundry-master. MASTER OF LIFE: strange term.
He will give a home to any word...if it is an anagram for Pavel. 

D: "There is a crack running through me"...[his moral failings; cracked goodness?]...."There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in"---Leonard Cohen....

Yet, as with the bell that is St. Sergius's wooden leg, it can sound....

Metaphor of the artist, of Dostoevsky as artist.....???