The carcass washes ashore and is trapped in an eddy at the building site of the Hacienda. The eddy becomes a metaphor for Empire falls, and the moose for the characters and their secrets.
Miles and Father Mark call this The Rectum, a nickname growing out of youthful Miles' inability to distinguish between the two words.
Miles never manages to build up enough courage to paint the steeple, a symbol of a fear he has developed in adulthood to risk new ventures.
An inexpensive restaurant on Martha's Vineyard where Grace takes Miles and introduces him to steamed clams-to which he quickly becomes addicted.
This is an expensive restaurant on Martha's Vineyard, where Mr. Mayne makes steamed clams appear, even though they.....
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