TRTR - Chapter 6 - a really expensive eggbeater

[Michael Bailey]

recktall brown's business has its expenses -
he has to buy this receipt thingie, a-and a special eggbeater for Wyatt

Fuller is kind of a Caliban figure.  RB told him he would turn him
white, he lied, the lie was apparent but he has this power over Fuller
- I think it's just that he yells at him.  I'm pretty much the same
way, yell at me and most often I'll do whatever...

okay, what the heck is going on in this chapter?  I don't even mean
themes or references, just, what is the plot?
Fuller is instrumental in Brown's plans in several ways, and yet he
has no leverage - Brown keeps frustrating Fuller.
Fuller's earth - a fuller was somebody who kneaded fuller's earth, a
type of clay, into fabric as part of the finishing process to absorb
impurities.

Basil Valentine - the original of that name was a Catholic alchemist
in the 15th century.  among his works: "book 4, of the features of the
7 planets" (Crowley later wrote a "Book Four" also)
(7 planets being important to Wyatt and his father as we recall)

Basil and Wyatt, sharing a cab, share the sensation that they are
characters in a novel, probably some good woolgathering could be done
about that
-- I'm futzed mentally in about 20 ways today and have been all week...
but passages in the chapter are poetic and resonant as heck!
And it's chapter 7, and there is the big 7 meditation on 265

so the lilies that Brown hates, Fuller gets free from the funeral
parlor guy who also placed the wreath on the mourning door of the
neighbors that the partygoer stole?

is the Steenken Madonna for real?  apparently so -
http://tinyurl.com/5v4ywsp (took awhile for my device to load that)
appropriately it's been retitled and re-attributed!

but come on!  we don't need no Steenken Madonna?  or am I the only
lowlife to be repeating that under my breath, slightly ashamed of such
irreverence?


so who's this John guy?  is he the guy that Esther and Wyatt met up
with in the park?
he's some kind of denominational preacher who goes around reviving
faltering churches?  (they do have those...)

Esme, who was at the party, and I think rather important to Otto, is
now modeling for Wyatt?

Wyatt is a copious woolgatherer, like father like son, nostalgic for
stuff that happened so long before he was born

so he's making Esme sit for him (and that's an interesting
relationship to contemplate) as the model for the Steenken Madonna, or
the van der Goes fragment, or something?

hides her narco-works in the electric meter and the meter man (I've
always thought that would have been a pretty decent job...) hands them
to her and asks her not to use that for storage

and I'm thinking that Esme's a tortured soul and writes the by Goddest
Rilke I ever damn saw...