AtD: Skip vs Byron

[Mark Kohut]

p.73 ff...Merle tames the ball-lightning, Skip, they all become friends until
he, Skip, has to go back.....Dally wants him to come back.....

"You get sort of gathered back into it all,'s how it works, so it wouldn't be
me anymore, really."...

I suggest Skip, natural lightning, is a symbol for all of nature including we conscious types and this
above is TRP giving us a little of that cycle of life belief many naturalists--(or semi-
spiritual-minded naturalists) have.....

Belief  is also sorta shared by a God-believing-in mystic 
like Simone Weil, who wrote "Gravity & Grace".....key P words for what that's worth.....

Byron is not-natural, is immortal so he doesn't join the self-effacing cycle of life.....
And suffers for it....
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