IVIV, Bigfoot on Doc's case
Tore Rye Andersen
torerye at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 2 02:05:56 CDT 2009
Monte:
> A stuffed panda to the first who finds the mirror/sea/elusive love
> trope in M&D!
Hmm, the best I can do is Rebekah visiting Mason on St. Helena:
"And here it is, upon the Windward Side, where no ship ever comes
willingly, that her visits begin. [...]
Once, long before dawn, bidden he can scarce say how, Mason rises
from his cot,-- Maskelyne across the shelter snoring in a miasma of
wine-fumes and an Obs Suit patch's together from local sources, whose
colors in the Gloom are mercifully obscur'd,-- enters the Wind, picks
his way 'cross Boot-slashing Rock up over the ridgeline and down
onto the floor of a ruin'd ebony forest, where among fog-wisps and
ancient black logging debris polish'd by the Wind, she accosts him
shiv'ring in his Cloak. The Ocean beats past the tiny accidental
Island. "I can't have Maskelyne finding me out here."
"I imagin'd you miss'd me," she replies in her own unmodified
voice. Christ. The Moonlight insists she is there. Her eyes have
broken into white, and grown pointed at the outer ends, and her ears
are back like a cat's. "What are you up to here, Charlie? What is
this place?"" (M&D, 163-64)
Sea, check. Elusive love, check. Moonlight and ghostliness, check.
As for mirrors: well, I guess the polished logging debris and her
white eyes will have to do. Semi-check?
Does this qualify me for a stuffed panda? If so, I think I'll call
him Michael....
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