Wet And Windy Night Chapter 12 Summary
Chapter Twelve: Wet and Windy Night
The company group is still searching for the man they saw. They discover footprints and start following those. Then, as they are getting closer, see a man ride off on the back of a horse. The Belbury group finds the empty chamber of Merlin. Frost informs Mark, while visiting him in his cell, that the trials they have been putting him through are his test to enter into the inner circle. They are trying to rid him of any feelings. Frost explains more about what they are doing and how Alcasan’s head is not run by his mind but by macrobes. He also informs him that the last two wars they went through are two and sixteen planned. The horse runs up to the door of the Manor, and they are all on edge. The horse has a man on its back. Meanwhile at Belbury, they believe they have found Merlin and call him tramp for the time being. The tramp does not understand Merlin’s Latin.
Chapter Thirteen: They Have Pulled Down Heaven on Their Heads …show more content…
The Director, Ransom, speaks in Latin to the man that arrived on horse at the Manor.
The man wants to know who the head of the house is because he does not believe it is Ransom. He asks him three questions to see if he is the head. The final questions was about the Pendragon, upon which Ransom told the man that was he. The man the company identifies as Merlin, prophesizes about Mr. Bultitude. Mrs. Dimble, in a conversation with her husband, comments that spirit and matter are reason why the marriage didn’t work. The more that the company gets to know Merlin, they realize he is not as NICE thought he was; he is the last old age/traditionalist, not a scientist. Ransom plans for the powers of Heaven to come down on
Merlin.
Chapter Fourteen: “Real Life is Meeting”
Frost once again visits Mark in his cell, and this time informs him that systematic training is done, and he feeds him. Frost takes Mark to a room with distracting patterns and pictures. He explores for a couple hours. He ended up becoming aware of what the room was not. He thought of things he loved, including Jane. Mark then goes to the room with the tramp to watch over him. The tramp speaks English to him, and he is able to get the tramp not to talk to anyone in English. At the Manor, Jane observes Mrs. Dimble doing standard housework, which Jane is not used to doing herself. Ivy informs the two of them that her husband was arrested because he was trying to get money for laundry. After these two observations and being in that environment, Jane starts to think about how she needs to treat Mark differently. Jane has another vision, yet the whole time she thinks it is real. There is a lady, with dwarfs, who is dancing around and catching things on fire, but they the fire turns into vegetation. He awakes from the dream to Mrs. Dimble wondering what was going on. The narrator has a discussion on Mr. Bultitude’s memory, sensations, human interactions, etc. This discussion leads into him contemplating climbing a tree or not, which he does. Then, he is seen by the NICE police, caught, and taken to Belbury. Mark is building upon his relationship with the tramp. Ransom talks to Jane about her pride and how she has pride in not being taken in by masculinity. He suggests the solution is Christianity. Ivy’s husband is released, but not home. He is taken to Belbury for treatments. It concludes with Jane having a ‘religious’ experience.
Chapter Fifteen: The Descent of the Gods
The descent of the Gods on Merlin occurs in different segments, and it is different within the Blue Room and the Kitchen of the Manor. In the Kitchen, the first stage is talkative with everyone interrupting one another. This stage then goes into a calm period with sleepiness and warmth. After this stage, the descent is noticed; different appliances turn on, one of them starts playing a fiddle, and they are all dancing. In the Blue Room, which is just Merlin and Ransom, the first stage starts with them embracing each other and embracing themselves or other objects. Then, the next stage is an increase in temperature and a feeling of floating. Next, is a difficult stage, bringing about harsh feelings, heat, and ruthlessness. Then, the two men go down memory lane within their other worlds. That turns into a cold pressure, which ends in the final stage of a party and singing of Gloria. Merlin receives the powers and is taken to Belbury. Merlin then goes in and speaks to the tramp. He gives the tramp the ability to speak to him in another language; thus, giving him the power as his translator. Merlin gets Wither and Frost to obey the tramp. Wither takes them on a tour and to see the head. Wither and Frost are weary of the translator and the tramp. Mark is taken by Frost to the Crucifix, where he admits he does not believe. While all these events are going on, Jules arrives for the banquet and is insulted to not be greeted by Wither.
Chapter Sixteen: Banquet at Belbury
At the Banquet, Jules is speaking but is speaking non-sense. He believes he is saying one thing, but everyone else is hearing something else. Withers tries to make up for Jules’s mistake, but does the exact same thing. People are not even able to converse with one another because it is all gibberish. For example, Withers said “It would – ah – be shark, very shark, from anyone’s debenture…” There then is a loud noise, followed by silence, and then Jules being killed by the Fairy. The Fairy ends up locking the doors of the banquet hall. Then, a parade of wild animals, tiger, snake, gorilla, elephant, etc. come in the room and kill many people. Others also die in the stampede of people running wild. Merlin sneaks out earlier and released Mr. Bultitude and Mr. Maggs, as well as all the beasts that were running free. Merlin gave Mr. Maggs and Mark letters with addresses to see their wives. Withers, Straik, and Filostrato escape the fiasco. They go into the room with the head. The head asks for another head. Withers and Straik sacrifice Filostrato’s head on his own machine. At the same time, they sense that one more of them is going to have to give their head. Withers wins the battle, slicing Straik after he slid on Filostrato’s blood. A bear enters the room and kills Withers. Feverstone made it out alive after watching the whole thing from a kitchen passage, then drove off in a car (but could not control it). Lastly, Frost committed suicide. He poured petrol oil on the crucifix and threw himself into the flames; it was an “escape for the soul.”
Chapter Seventeen: Venus at St. Anne’s
Mark is still on his way to the Manor when a car offers to take him closer to the Manor. They drop him off at a hotel, where he gets a bath, some food, tea, sleep, and reads. He is avoiding heading to Jane because he believes she found her niche, which he is not welcomed into. He says that “Jane had been fool enough to marry him.” Yet, he loved her and continued on. The women at the Manor are helping each other pick dresses for dinner, but they are not using a mirror because Ransom said he wants them to be “mirrors enough to see another.” Feverstone crashes his car, and he starts making his way to Edgestow. As he is arriving, everyone is leaving for various reasons. He is hesitant to carry on but ends up doing so and gets overcome by an earthquake. Back at the Manor, Ransom crowns Miss Ironwood, and he admits he needs to leave in order to heal and come upon death in Perelandra. The new Pendragon is said to be Arthur Denniston, and he will go to the third heaven, Perelandra. Mr. Bultitude arrives at the Manor and Maggs feeds him. She discovers he has a lady friend now, and actually all the animals now have a partner. The narrator discusses a conversation on the train, in which Curry is a part of. Curry discovers that the Bracton collapsed during the earthquake. He has a turning point in life realizing that if he would have left earlier he would have died; everything is “providential.”
Mr. Maggs reconnects with his wife, and Mark arrives. He is greeted by a woman in a doorway to a lodge. Jane goes out a little later to find Mark there.
The company group is still searching for the man they saw. They discover footprints and start following those. Then, as they are getting closer, see a man ride off on the back of a horse. The Belbury group finds the empty chamber of Merlin. Frost informs Mark, while visiting him in his cell, that the trials they have been putting him through are his test to enter into the inner circle. They are trying to rid him of any feelings. Frost explains more about what they are doing and how Alcasan’s head is not run by his mind but by macrobes. He also informs him that the last two wars they went through are two and sixteen planned. The horse runs up to the door of the Manor, and they are all on edge. The horse has a man on its back. Meanwhile at Belbury, they believe they have found Merlin and call him tramp for the time being. The tramp does not understand Merlin’s Latin.
Chapter Thirteen: They Have Pulled Down Heaven on Their Heads …show more content…
The Director, Ransom, speaks in Latin to the man that arrived on horse at the Manor.
The man wants to know who the head of the house is because he does not believe it is Ransom. He asks him three questions to see if he is the head. The final questions was about the Pendragon, upon which Ransom told the man that was he. The man the company identifies as Merlin, prophesizes about Mr. Bultitude. Mrs. Dimble, in a conversation with her husband, comments that spirit and matter are reason why the marriage didn’t work. The more that the company gets to know Merlin, they realize he is not as NICE thought he was; he is the last old age/traditionalist, not a scientist. Ransom plans for the powers of Heaven to come down on
Merlin.
Chapter Fourteen: “Real Life is Meeting”
Frost once again visits Mark in his cell, and this time informs him that systematic training is done, and he feeds him. Frost takes Mark to a room with distracting patterns and pictures. He explores for a couple hours. He ended up becoming aware of what the room was not. He thought of things he loved, including Jane. Mark then goes to the room with the tramp to watch over him. The tramp speaks English to him, and he is able to get the tramp not to talk to anyone in English. At the Manor, Jane observes Mrs. Dimble doing standard housework, which Jane is not used to doing herself. Ivy informs the two of them that her husband was arrested because he was trying to get money for laundry. After these two observations and being in that environment, Jane starts to think about how she needs to treat Mark differently. Jane has another vision, yet the whole time she thinks it is real. There is a lady, with dwarfs, who is dancing around and catching things on fire, but they the fire turns into vegetation. He awakes from the dream to Mrs. Dimble wondering what was going on. The narrator has a discussion on Mr. Bultitude’s memory, sensations, human interactions, etc. This discussion leads into him contemplating climbing a tree or not, which he does. Then, he is seen by the NICE police, caught, and taken to Belbury. Mark is building upon his relationship with the tramp. Ransom talks to Jane about her pride and how she has pride in not being taken in by masculinity. He suggests the solution is Christianity. Ivy’s husband is released, but not home. He is taken to Belbury for treatments. It concludes with Jane having a ‘religious’ experience.
Chapter Fifteen: The Descent of the Gods
The descent of the Gods on Merlin occurs in different segments, and it is different within the Blue Room and the Kitchen of the Manor. In the Kitchen, the first stage is talkative with everyone interrupting one another. This stage then goes into a calm period with sleepiness and warmth. After this stage, the descent is noticed; different appliances turn on, one of them starts playing a fiddle, and they are all dancing. In the Blue Room, which is just Merlin and Ransom, the first stage starts with them embracing each other and embracing themselves or other objects. Then, the next stage is an increase in temperature and a feeling of floating. Next, is a difficult stage, bringing about harsh feelings, heat, and ruthlessness. Then, the two men go down memory lane within their other worlds. That turns into a cold pressure, which ends in the final stage of a party and singing of Gloria. Merlin receives the powers and is taken to Belbury. Merlin then goes in and speaks to the tramp. He gives the tramp the ability to speak to him in another language; thus, giving him the power as his translator. Merlin gets Wither and Frost to obey the tramp. Wither takes them on a tour and to see the head. Wither and Frost are weary of the translator and the tramp. Mark is taken by Frost to the Crucifix, where he admits he does not believe. While all these events are going on, Jules arrives for the banquet and is insulted to not be greeted by Wither.
Chapter Sixteen: Banquet at Belbury
At the Banquet, Jules is speaking but is speaking non-sense. He believes he is saying one thing, but everyone else is hearing something else. Withers tries to make up for Jules’s mistake, but does the exact same thing. People are not even able to converse with one another because it is all gibberish. For example, Withers said “It would – ah – be shark, very shark, from anyone’s debenture…” There then is a loud noise, followed by silence, and then Jules being killed by the Fairy. The Fairy ends up locking the doors of the banquet hall. Then, a parade of wild animals, tiger, snake, gorilla, elephant, etc. come in the room and kill many people. Others also die in the stampede of people running wild. Merlin sneaks out earlier and released Mr. Bultitude and Mr. Maggs, as well as all the beasts that were running free. Merlin gave Mr. Maggs and Mark letters with addresses to see their wives. Withers, Straik, and Filostrato escape the fiasco. They go into the room with the head. The head asks for another head. Withers and Straik sacrifice Filostrato’s head on his own machine. At the same time, they sense that one more of them is going to have to give their head. Withers wins the battle, slicing Straik after he slid on Filostrato’s blood. A bear enters the room and kills Withers. Feverstone made it out alive after watching the whole thing from a kitchen passage, then drove off in a car (but could not control it). Lastly, Frost committed suicide. He poured petrol oil on the crucifix and threw himself into the flames; it was an “escape for the soul.”
Chapter Seventeen: Venus at St. Anne’s
Mark is still on his way to the Manor when a car offers to take him closer to the Manor. They drop him off at a hotel, where he gets a bath, some food, tea, sleep, and reads. He is avoiding heading to Jane because he believes she found her niche, which he is not welcomed into. He says that “Jane had been fool enough to marry him.” Yet, he loved her and continued on. The women at the Manor are helping each other pick dresses for dinner, but they are not using a mirror because Ransom said he wants them to be “mirrors enough to see another.” Feverstone crashes his car, and he starts making his way to Edgestow. As he is arriving, everyone is leaving for various reasons. He is hesitant to carry on but ends up doing so and gets overcome by an earthquake. Back at the Manor, Ransom crowns Miss Ironwood, and he admits he needs to leave in order to heal and come upon death in Perelandra. The new Pendragon is said to be Arthur Denniston, and he will go to the third heaven, Perelandra. Mr. Bultitude arrives at the Manor and Maggs feeds him. She discovers he has a lady friend now, and actually all the animals now have a partner. The narrator discusses a conversation on the train, in which Curry is a part of. Curry discovers that the Bracton collapsed during the earthquake. He has a turning point in life realizing that if he would have left earlier he would have died; everything is “providential.”
Mr. Maggs reconnects with his wife, and Mark arrives. He is greeted by a woman in a doorway to a lodge. Jane goes out a little later to find Mark there.