AtD gold

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut wrote:

> David is right and I am firming up a longer defense of my moral reading.
> It too must take into account what is 'beyond good and evil and
> all binaries' or it is my weakness in the reading.....
>
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Lew and Merle, maybe not obviously Iceland Spar-ly opposed, but Lew watches
everybody else, whereas Merle creates his own rather virtuous (imho) world
out of scientific enthusiasms, ball lightning, photography, time itself...

(I don't think he really meant to sell Dalley, that was just a pleasantry
to shock Noseworth, and he's hardly mercenary - basically as it says
somewhere, all year he works day jobs to be able to afford a month at
Candlebrow)

Vibe and Webb, obvious opposition by their chosen places w/r/t class...
Werfner and Renfrew, by their analogous positions in different national
war-machines

Reef macho man / Cyprian effete dandy occupy different poles in a
masculinity continuum...

the ellipses proliferate, pairs of foci abound...
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