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The violent mob can destroy the town and the villages, but not the Narrator’s retreat. Places in this novel are not purely locations but have metaphysical importance. The mob cannot destroy the inward, spiritual retreat of the Narrator, because it is protected by forces totally the Mob.

Entire chapter devoted to the hunting dogs, sleek humters and heavy mastiffs. Next chapter there is something I never noticed before, the tree-line with its mob of hunters is something like a skirmish line. The charge to take it is very reminiscent of trench warfare; avoiding traps, storming barricades, hand to hand fighting.

Never picked up before the comparison between Braquemart’s tehcnical skills and Prince Sunmyra’a noble spirit, and how both of them could be brought together and made more full by the Priest. This is Jünger explaining how the whole disaster could have been averted.