M&D - Chapter 16 - Great Waves of Melancholy on the Atlantic

David Ewers dsewers at comcast.net
Tue Mar 24 13:03:10 CDT 2015


I'm just catching up.  
If bloviating is something that can be done in writing, I'll be ready to bloviate soon. 

On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:44 PM Jolly good day we are having, Johnny Marr wrote:

> "'Well'! What are you saying, Mason? To be not  well over here, is to be dead. How you have avoided that Fate, indeed, puzzles me".
> 
> Poor Mason, suffering misery in earthly paradise. TRP captures him in depression, as a man out of step with his cohorts, resigned to being misunderstood by the well meaning but unreflective Maskelyne and the still unencountered Dieter (another visitor from the Spirit World?)
> 
> Who asks for Break-neck in the taxi?
> 
> What did 18th century Hungarian and Moorish music sound like?
> 
>  And what's the importance of the Wind "blowing cross-wise to the light incoming from Sirius, producing false images"?
> 
> In truth, I'm a bit tired and need to go to bed. Haven't done the last couple of pages justice; will revisit tomorrow ...

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