Notes - Diagram of Merlyn's Sanctuary / Intro to 'The Dead - 3'

         Late mid-morning. You are ready to begin The Dead -3 but don't know where to start. Have Merlyn sitting up on the bank under a large oak inspecting his quarters. Follow this diagram:

                                            

EAST *** *** EASTSCOTS PINE   APPLE            OAK   HAZEL   OAK                     BIRCH................Meadow...........................Thick Forested HiIls.........................ferns............

          River                          River        

   Leather Boat [curragh]

.................. See Through Woods to River..................ferns............................

  Red Thistle        OAK             BIRCH                PINE OAK   BIRCH     BIRCH

         ................... See     Through    Woods to River...................................                

  Flowering Purple Heather                                            

                  Hut                                             Scottish Bluebells  

Red                                               Stone for                           Meadow

Campion                                  Sitting on Boulder                 

  Giant Oak                                  Ox Eye

                         Meadow                                      Stage                  Daisies

     Ragged Robin                                                    Ruins                        *SOUTH*

*NORTH*                                      White Foxglove

    White Foxglove                                                                         Red Poppy        

APPLE     APPLE                                   Meadow                      

                        Pinkish White Meadow Saxifriage

...........................................Meadow......................................                                                                    Flowering purple heather on granite bolder

...................... Scottish Highland  Hills  Forest.......................................................

  THICK OAK FOREST      OAK             HAZEL                  BIRCH /OAK  PINE

WEST  ***** WEST         

       1218 hours. The diagram took a while (between busy/fun bouts with Brennan) and I have placed a copy in the Dead Folder. It is good for Merlyn to have an orientation.

         Now you feel more ready. Take a break then perhaps a drive to Horseshoe Park for a bit.  Post. - Amorella

        1313 hours. I spent about another hour trying to fit the diagram to the blog. It is better, but not nearly as it should be. I do have the correct diagram to work on though. Merlyn's orientation is important when he is the 'center' of his domain for the story. The billiard table when it appears is to the south of the sitting boulder. The left margin is North.  

        1218 hours. The diagram took a while (between busy/fun bouts with Brennan) and I have placed a copy in the Dead Folder. It is good for Merlyn to have an orientation.

         Now you feel more ready. Take a break then perhaps a drive to Horseshoe Park for a bit.  Post. - Amorella

         You are at the park with your Jennifer cookies and a blonde (similar to a brownie in texture). Brennan went back to sleep and Carol is beginning chapter twenty-two of her Robin Cook novel, Death Benefit. You are ready so let's get to it. - Amorella

         1953 hours. I have the first section of The Dead - 3. It is presently at 308 words and Merlyn's sanctuary has yet to be described.

         However, you have made some progress. Post it. - Amorella

         I am surprised at how it is. I really don't have a clue what flavor the paragraphs are going to dress themselves in. This is no different.

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The Dead - 3 ©2012 draft

         The livingandead Merlyn stepped onto the slab of non-granite where he stationed his non-sitting stone, or throne, as he likes to call it; the non-home he once created for the etherial domain of his earthly spirit.

         In HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither each spirit is allowed a private sanctuary of herorhis own rightful choosing. This is the primary reason the marsupial-humanoids chose to call this Place of the Dead, where Merlyn eventually found himself after physical death, HeavenOrHellBothOrNeither. The early twenty-first century earthly human spirits easily caught this linguistic flavor because the marsupial language has a function similar to the German -- the occasional verbal allowance concerned with a broader general definition of the noun. Here, among the Dead, one is not so empirical with the naming-of-things; at least one is no more empirical than one's own heartansoulanmind is. Science only goes so far. By definition the metaphysical world is too far.

         The Place of the Dead uses the balanced spiritual sense of herorhis now realized full unconsciousness and consciousness to allow one's human spirit to decide the just worth and value of herorhis otherwise fragile and unearthly habitat. The gravity of one's judged self-worth and dignity holds the spiritual house balance together. Knowing one's self never had a deeper meaning. Balancing one's real self with who one was in life is not an easy matter. Many of the Dead, marsupial humanoids or earthlings, remain silent for good reason.

         This fact provides a refreshing pause to the words "in the beginning" because physical death provides for an imaginative bodiless re-beginning for the 'human spirit' or the 'heartansoulanmind'. A few rules do apply. For instance, people know that in the physical universe nothing is free.

         Keeping a spiritual balance has its price because in the metaphysical world nothing is free either. Everyone pays the Boatman, no matter who the spiritual entity is. (308)

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