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

[Mark Kohut]

So, the old association of Wind with the 'divine' is prominent herein.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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