V--2nd, Chap 16 p.445 hc
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 08:24:04 CST 2011
Anybody up for some explication here?
"Not Stencil's," Stencil insisted. "Hers"
Maijstral shrugged. "Why have you come? She is dead"
"He must know."
"I could never find that cellar again, If I could: it must be rebuilt now.
Your confirmation would lie deep."
.................(more and easier lines to get)
Then:
"But not apt to have visions."
"Oh, real enough. You always look inside first to find what's missing. What
gap a vision could possibility fill. I was all gap then, and there was too wide
a field to choose from."
This last speaker is Maijstral.
Q: What cellar? Rebuilt? Notice punctuation here. What confirmation?
Visions?....
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