V--2nd, more Chap 9 Lightning and rods

[Mark Kohut]

"some say lightning disturbs the sferics"...and later in this chapter,I believe, 
although
I cannot seem to find it and am giving up since others will know or won't need 
the citation
but Mondaugen, I think it is, (almost?) falls off a roof much like Doc does in 
IV, in fact similar
sliding but how else does one fall off a roof?.....

But he grabs a lightning rod to hold back his fall............
which is prolly another not-yet-named allusion, this to
Melville's famous story The Lightning-Rod Man, a salesman
selling them who writes a fraudulent contract--adds an extra number--
and it is all much more costly for the homeowner...............

"That I travel in thunder-storms, I grant; but not without particular 
precautions, 
such as only alightning-rod man may know. Hark! ...


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