Daemonomania, p. 60-106
Rosie remembers her childhood stay in the hospital. A grown-up Bobby Shaftoe is working there now, and talks to Sam and Rosie; Sam's seizures turn out to be idiopathic, requiring a further stay to observe.
Pierce goes shopping before a date with Rose, and buys a wonderful picture frame. He lets himself into her house before she gets home, to do a little snooping and so trick her into thinking he knows things about her by magic. After a lovely evening, Pierce lying awake imagines that they could have met before, in the city, she the starlet at the porno shoot where he first met the Sphinx. How easy she was to fool. And imagines, then, fleeing as far from there as he could get, feeling warned but not acting on it in reality.
Pierce remembers getting hold of a copy of Kafft-Ebing as a lad (a memorable bit about the woman who was turned on by crystals!) and hoping if he grew up to be a fetishist it wouldn't be anything too operose (there's that word again.) Having found he has a taste for domination, he learns the ropes (ha ha) and gives Rose a safeword, I tell you three times, like "The Hunting of the Snark". And this wonderful observation: "Pierce Moffett, although an adult male human, a mammal living on earth, nevertheless was able to believe that power and sex were realms of being not only different but opposed in their natures; that what power was guilty of, primordially guilty of, sex was not: sex, soiled or enchained or even bought and sold, was innocent." I believe it still.
As Pierce washes and braids Rose's hair she tells him about her plan to join the Powerhouse group at The Woods. Her reaction to having her hair cut is described at greater length, reminding me of an article I ran across recently, ASMR: The Good Feeling No One Can Explain, which reports on those who get similar thrills from haircuts, whispering, etc. He forbids her to touch herself, but does so himself before he even gets home (I learned the word pneumatorrhaea from this passage and used it in a poem once.)
At Arcady, Rosie and Sam rake leaves. While Rosie's busy on the phone, Sam takes the crystal ball out and looks into it, seeing Doctor Dee and bidding him come out. Back in Dee's time, he sees her, too, then she is gone; sees the ruin of his despoiled house, and thinks back over all that Madimi had led them to do, the disappointments and hardships of the Work, without ever knowing for sure if the Enochian angels were even good. Kraft's book ends there, and Pierce takes it from the house at last, the ghost of Kraft's faithful dog finally relieved of guard duty.
Pierce goes shopping before a date with Rose, and buys a wonderful picture frame. He lets himself into her house before she gets home, to do a little snooping and so trick her into thinking he knows things about her by magic. After a lovely evening, Pierce lying awake imagines that they could have met before, in the city, she the starlet at the porno shoot where he first met the Sphinx. How easy she was to fool. And imagines, then, fleeing as far from there as he could get, feeling warned but not acting on it in reality.
Pierce remembers getting hold of a copy of Kafft-Ebing as a lad (a memorable bit about the woman who was turned on by crystals!) and hoping if he grew up to be a fetishist it wouldn't be anything too operose (there's that word again.) Having found he has a taste for domination, he learns the ropes (ha ha) and gives Rose a safeword, I tell you three times, like "The Hunting of the Snark". And this wonderful observation: "Pierce Moffett, although an adult male human, a mammal living on earth, nevertheless was able to believe that power and sex were realms of being not only different but opposed in their natures; that what power was guilty of, primordially guilty of, sex was not: sex, soiled or enchained or even bought and sold, was innocent." I believe it still.
As Pierce washes and braids Rose's hair she tells him about her plan to join the Powerhouse group at The Woods. Her reaction to having her hair cut is described at greater length, reminding me of an article I ran across recently, ASMR: The Good Feeling No One Can Explain, which reports on those who get similar thrills from haircuts, whispering, etc. He forbids her to touch herself, but does so himself before he even gets home (I learned the word pneumatorrhaea from this passage and used it in a poem once.)
At Arcady, Rosie and Sam rake leaves. While Rosie's busy on the phone, Sam takes the crystal ball out and looks into it, seeing Doctor Dee and bidding him come out. Back in Dee's time, he sees her, too, then she is gone; sees the ruin of his despoiled house, and thinks back over all that Madimi had led them to do, the disappointments and hardships of the Work, without ever knowing for sure if the Enochian angels were even good. Kraft's book ends there, and Pierce takes it from the house at last, the ghost of Kraft's faithful dog finally relieved of guard duty.