IVIV (1) Shasta

[David Payne]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 (13:35:10 -0700), Mark Kohut (markekohut at yahoo.com) wrote:


> Flatland gear = straightworld clothing.....see gloss....she's, at most now, a line........not a positive in P's world here and elsewhere........


Contrast: Flatland ... straightworld ... came on the surface streets and in through the alley (and remember that Mt. Shasta is home to peoples whose civilization was flattened)

 

with: The light shining down through Doc's window ... and SPOILER ALERT the end where Doc, not on the surface streets seems to almost be flying above the world like the Chums

 

Don't ignore the connection to the novel "Flatland." I've only skimmed a few pages, but it has two dimensional characters (literally two dimensions as in cannot look down upon anything) who are unable to percieve reality, who lock people in asylums for the pointless endeveor of trying to locate the source of light in the world... 

 

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 (14:43:23 -0500) Dave Monroe (against.the.dave at gmail.com) wrote:


> "Tonight she was all in flatland gear"
> 
> As in straight? Square? Cf. ...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

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