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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (43067)	12/3/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) of 71178

The passengers are invited to stay, forever if they would like. But most of them continue to complain and squabble, and insist instead on going back to their dreary grey city. Actually, it's a bit more complicated than your rendition and a bit more applicable to "feelies" in its own way. The mountains invite; all one has to do is let go of pettiness and the need to score off one another and sin to get there (heaven), sin being defined in the book as the perversion of the good and healthy. Some of the people can do so. There is a character whose lust is portrayed as a nasty little lizard whispering things into his ear; when he can finally bring himself to throw it off, the lizard is transformed into a stallion (healthy desire) that carries him at a gallop to the mountains. Some of them cannot. One character is so addicted to posturing--embodied by a "tragedian" who speaks for him--that he himself disappears altogether.

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