M&D - pp 107-108 Flotsam? Got some!

[David Ewers]

>> Here in St. Helena we have the Yellow dog as constellation...and The Southern Cross?   Loosey-goosey... <<

Sorry.  Zenith star, not constellation.  But you got my point, I reckon.
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> "Ev’ry Midnight the baleful thing is there, crossing directly overhead, - the Yellow Dog.  There inverted among the Wires, all but flowing.”   Yeah?  
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> "Wires, all but flowing” ???  Sounds a bit paranoid to me.  What are these wires -  the ship’s wires?  imaginary lines between points in a constellation? the lines used by astronomers? 

Inverted, like an image through a telescope?  Maybe the Dog Star is on the eyepiece end of this one?  

The wires as strings?  So the inverted eye, pulling strings? 

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