<div dir="ltr">Hi Robert.<div><br></div><div>I am including my revised almost done but not quite done write up as a link here, only good for one month: <a href="https://pastebin.com/Jrf5eazs">https://pastebin.com/Jrf5eazs</a></div><div><br></div><div>Basically everything Bax presents is more or less true from the perspective of his senses in this reading, but most of it is internal dream states brought on by the Kikimora house spirit (house larger than its container, the sleeping mind). I map out the symbols like the fox chasing off the rabbit on the kimono onto the story of the Kikimora as Winkle (vixen who sucks the energy out of men) scaring away real love interests given the rabbit keys of Doris, etc (she's the real love interest - the real inheritance is the Skotos Strip, the two fake inheritances are the Black House and Martha Murrey's house (she is "a scarecrow" after traveling as she says - Kikimora means scarecrow). The question is in how to divide the two spirits that are not "real" - they exist, but they aren't of everyday stuff. One would seem to be Kiki and the other Lupine, but she wears skins. It is not clear which Mary King is associated with. I factor in the structure given that in the central letters Bax actually sees HIMSELF on the side of the road with the car and Dorris - cutting through duality is one of the huge themes, and we have three sets of twins, but only one "real" set in Bax and George - Ieuan and Emlyn are internal states - whatever befalls either of them immediately happens to Bax (hits one of them three times with a stick, gets hit by that guy three times with a stick, etc) with the Emlyn and Lupine match winning out at the end - the dream state thing involves the idea that things which are disbelieved is not remembered. The kikimora brings dreams, and when he is in fairy and meets Madame Orizia she tells him he is sleeping - he jumps out of bed when he goes back in the window. It feels that the same thing is happening that super long night after George is arrested - that much of what happens to him is in the dream of the kikimora, and that weird interchange with the waitress (how do you want that done? ... how do you want that done? ... how do you want that done? ... how do you want that done?) something out of nightmare.</div><div><br></div><div>Cutting through half the letters gives us the tarot, and Madame Orizia shows us how to split that from kikimora induced fantasy to reality with her big and small crystal metaphor.</div><div><br></div><div>The ogdal fish rune tells me one inheritance is true, that of Skotos and his dead wife, whoever she was, whose death probably birthed the Kikimora 40 years ago, but all the race track and horse imagery perhaps suggests something else.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Robert Pirkola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpirkola@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rpirkola@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I've been thinking about this for a bit and am not really clear what you mean by the dreaminess of the scene with Cathy Ruth and the gnome-jeweler who exclaims about Bax's sapphire ring but refuses to talk about Skotos. The scene is in<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400"> a
letter to George for one so the b.s. radar should start flashing there. Is that what you are talking about? </span>In any event, your trianulus theory is very strong in my opinion and perhaps it lends some insight into that scene. Are you saying that
there are three layers to the narrative and that most persons and significant items in the book have three natures? I read your thesis as Fantasy (highest order fabrication)/ Myth/(Tall Tale?) (middle order) / "Reality" (lowest order of fabrication). I feel
like you've talked about this kind of hierarchy before in your short story write-ups (or somewhere!) but in relation to a hierarchy of mimesis. Is this similar in your view? If so, it is interesting that Cathy Ruth could plausibly be a fabrication (she is
never in the presence of George, having been safely tucked into a car after her "rape" just before his arrival at the house). She could be used as a way to ratchet up the plausibility of Bax's story to George by coming out and showing that a journalist is
sniffing around about the supernatural rumors. In any event, it struck me on rereading some parts that Cathy Ruth is supposed to be raped by the dwarf but when the dwarf is seen with a woman it is one that doesn't match her description at all (I think it
was Madame Orizia?). It seems like this is the woman that was captured and should have been raped so is there some type of hierarchical relationship between Cathy Ruth and Madame Orizia? And if so who represents which level? And who is the third? A clue
might be found in Orizia's name meaning which seems to be derived from that of an Amazon queen Orithyia (the daughter of Marpesia, which apropos of your previous post, is the name of a butterfly! I feel a wave of apophenia coming on). Remember the coin that
has a depiction of a one-breasted Amazon? This starts to connect a smidge. Getting back to the restaurant scene, Bax's ring is talked about as a beautiful example of sapphire. Elsewhere
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it is a fire opal</span>. Still elsewhere <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400">it is Ted's ho-hum
wedding ring.</span> One, two, three levels of the hierarchy. Skotos Strip (reality), Black House (myth), what's the third property? The castle (fantasy)? Have you put these relationships into a table and see how they look next to each other? And I just
remembered I wanted to ask . . . What of the Tarot deck the chapters are supposed to represent? And what about Letters 22 and 23 (both called Silver Bullets) being smack in the middle with 21 letters either side? Are these significant? I have brought up
the concept of chiasmus and ring composition in the context of AEG but it seems like if it were used it would be used in this book given the prominence of rings in the text. Heck, even Musashi Miyamoto is mentioned along with his Book of Five Rings(!). Anyhow,
these are a smattering of my thoughts just now.</div>
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