Daemonomania, p. 209-263
Jan the werewolf tells his tale, and Doctor Dee realizes he is no melancholic. He cannot cure him, but wishes to save him from the Emperor's collection. Jan goes out to the night battle, passing through a carnivalesque procession and on to the land of the dead. There he finds only one witch, and himself the only wolf. Where have they all gone? Dee sends a letter asking for more time.
Bruno has come to Prague, with a book dedicated to Rudolf, and meets with Dee on the way to the castle. They do a brief magical battle of shape-shifting, trying to be first into the Emperor's presence. They are led to wait in the fabulous curio kammer, where everything is arranged by elements signified by the paintings of Arcimboldo. Dee explains the heiroglyphic monad to Bruno, who says it is a glyph of Man the microcosm. Dee gets a message from Rudolf demanding either the Stone or the werewolf, and realizes it is time to flee.
Bruno has his audience with the Emperor, but manages to offend Rudolf before he can tell him what he must do to renew the Empire and is sent away (having left the book, which by coincidence is given to the very same Mordente whom it satirized.) The Emperor's magicians come together in the castle, working on a clockwork chest and reading from the Monas. It seems they mean to put somebody inside, to preserve him like Christian Rosenkreutz. They discuss whom to entomb, and decide on Edward Kelly.
Chapter Six begins with Bobby, a witch raised in a werewolf's house, grown now and a nurse's aide. She remembers her stay with Pierce and his cousins as a child, reminded by the feeling of a fever rising. She works through the night so as not to be called out in her sleep, but remembers murdering a man and stealing his convertible on such a night when she didn't. She remembers living with a minister and his wife, her own child that died. She has joined the Powerhouse, to draw energy from them or to resist her own nature. There she meets Rose, and recognizes her as another like herself. Helping Rose get cleaned up after a spill, they share a smoke and talk about learning faith healing.
Rosie takes Sam to the hospital for her test on Halloween (the awful woodland mural made me laugh.) Rosie remembers the girl that died when she was staying there as a child. Sam and Rosie sing "Aiken Drum", which gives Rosie the horrors, like the effigy of Death in the procession in Prague made up of inanimate parts. She thinks about death, and the Rasmussen's relationship with it. Pierce sitting at his typewriter tries to finish the last pages of his book, and recalls deciding to commit the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, whatever that was. Rosie brings Sam home from the hospital, and reads a letter from Spofford detailing cattle mutilations and the heavily armed people he's met. Rosie tries to send a telegram but learns that, as with magic, it doesn't work like that anymore.
Bruno has come to Prague, with a book dedicated to Rudolf, and meets with Dee on the way to the castle. They do a brief magical battle of shape-shifting, trying to be first into the Emperor's presence. They are led to wait in the fabulous curio kammer, where everything is arranged by elements signified by the paintings of Arcimboldo. Dee explains the heiroglyphic monad to Bruno, who says it is a glyph of Man the microcosm. Dee gets a message from Rudolf demanding either the Stone or the werewolf, and realizes it is time to flee.
Bruno has his audience with the Emperor, but manages to offend Rudolf before he can tell him what he must do to renew the Empire and is sent away (having left the book, which by coincidence is given to the very same Mordente whom it satirized.) The Emperor's magicians come together in the castle, working on a clockwork chest and reading from the Monas. It seems they mean to put somebody inside, to preserve him like Christian Rosenkreutz. They discuss whom to entomb, and decide on Edward Kelly.
Chapter Six begins with Bobby, a witch raised in a werewolf's house, grown now and a nurse's aide. She remembers her stay with Pierce and his cousins as a child, reminded by the feeling of a fever rising. She works through the night so as not to be called out in her sleep, but remembers murdering a man and stealing his convertible on such a night when she didn't. She remembers living with a minister and his wife, her own child that died. She has joined the Powerhouse, to draw energy from them or to resist her own nature. There she meets Rose, and recognizes her as another like herself. Helping Rose get cleaned up after a spill, they share a smoke and talk about learning faith healing.
Rosie takes Sam to the hospital for her test on Halloween (the awful woodland mural made me laugh.) Rosie remembers the girl that died when she was staying there as a child. Sam and Rosie sing "Aiken Drum", which gives Rosie the horrors, like the effigy of Death in the procession in Prague made up of inanimate parts. She thinks about death, and the Rasmussen's relationship with it. Pierce sitting at his typewriter tries to finish the last pages of his book, and recalls deciding to commit the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, whatever that was. Rosie brings Sam home from the hospital, and reads a letter from Spofford detailing cattle mutilations and the heavily armed people he's met. Rosie tries to send a telegram but learns that, as with magic, it doesn't work like that anymore.