IVIV Preserved/Golden Fang

[dougmillison at comcast.net]

If the ocean represents the Unconscious, seems appropriate that a ship on its surface could be freighted with Mark's aptly described cargo from the past. Extending the metaphor a reader might see humans managing to skate across the face of ocean deep and dark even as we are doomed to sink eventually because of the weight of the past pressing relentlessly against structural flaws. 

It's probably worth going back to re-read the ship stuff in the rest of P's books, esp. M&D and GR, and see how IV's ship fits in.

Mark the K: 
I think it is a nice internal metaphor for the cargo from the past, from the "unconscious", from values before most (modern) nation-state wars...