Austra

[alice malice]

 Bonk's description of Hope implies that there is little hope for
those who may wish to disembark from what is, as he describes it, a
ship at sea (59 top). Is he aware of the pun, the double duty of the
word, the irony? Speaking of doubles, our boys have only recently
landed, after a double ship, the first one of which disabused the boys
of some of their misconceptions, about one another, though it
compounded their paranoid confusion wrt their employers, the second of
which landed them at Hope, not exactly their destination, and not
really, if we can believe Bonk, a place on the map, more a ship than
an outpost. Of course Bonk is not a very reliable functionary; he
reads Mason for Dixon and Dixon for Mason, taking Mason as a person of
interest not Dixon, and noting that when the time comes he may need to
set the Assistant against the dangerous Mason who may be a  liberator
of the enslaved. That Mrs. V reverses this misreading tells us her
name is fitting; she will target the melancholic Mason.

Austra is another comic turn in the doubling, and thus ironic  coupling.

Ampersanded they landed, or did they?

Things are not what they seem...

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> I thought the same thing.  Of course she would have to go into some wilder places than anywhere in capetown to escape, and she probably has no idea if she could survive there.
> On Feb 7, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Keith Davis wrote:
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>> Larger question, do we all choose our servitude, or would we choose to escape from it if presented with the possibility?
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>>> On Feb 7, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> ...is a slave? At the end of Ch. 8, the girls follow M & D up to the observatory. Austra is the authority here, as far as the girls are concerned. It seems she could so easily slip away into the continent and personal freedom. Does she choose her servitude?
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>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>> Sent from Beyond the Zero
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