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

[Johnny Marr]

Reading chapter 17 makes the theme about the Wind in chapter 16 a little
clearer - Mason feels his wife's ghost is following him on the back of the
local winds, so he needs to escape to a different microclimate in St Helena

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> 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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