C of Lot 49: Help me parse these sentences

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
>
 The "It" is Pierce as Lamont? .....Those memories took "him'---the
real once-alive Pierce?---over. ??
>

good question, Mark.

tentative feminist reading, I say "it" here is "the Lamont Cranston voice"

So in fact Pierce, as a patriarchal archetype, has appeared to her
with many different voices (phallologocentrism)
and since their divorce, ONLY as those varied voices

But her last memory of Pierce is of the Lamont Cranston voice.

Its mystery begins to overshadow her tactile memories of him. (just as
the patriarchal choosing of power-over rather than relating-to means
that the patriarchal figure becomes in the mind of his [victims?] more
of a verbal superego force to be reckoned with, argued with, obeyed or
disobeyed, than a physical human to love -- not inevitably a
completely bad thing but perhaps not one's first choice in a mate or
friend or lover)

Pierce becomes this mysterious figure and the voice takes primacy as
her main lasting impression of him - in fact calls her to the
adventures about to happen, sets the tone!

also, Lamont Cranston as the Shadow had this whole communication
network (the Shadow movie a few years ago was pretty good in depicting
that), and thus a good gateway character (psychopomp?) for this
juncture

-- 
"For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as.
For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are." - GR, p
136