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

[Johnny Marr]

Peter Schmidt of Swarthmore College points out in his notes for M&D that
Rebekkah is a revenant, in the fashion of Gravity's Rainbow, and that her
appearances are stimulated by the St Helena winds

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps because, as a supposed Man of Reason, the continual appearances of
> her ghost are beginning to disturb him, so he wants to escape from these
> visions, even though he also wants to speak to her and recapture their love
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:15 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But why would Mason desire to escape his life's love, whom he dreams of
>> following into the underworld? Maybe she has become too real? Has her ghost
>> become less romantic?
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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