V--2nd, Chap 16 p.445 hc

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 08:39:00 CST 2011


I believe the cellar was the bombed ruin where the children dismantled
the Bad. Priest.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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