1.The Spiritual Vision of Chesed is the ‘Vision of Love’.

2.“Cabala always connotes motion, both in the way the past is conceived and the way the future is anticipated… Cabala incarnates this principle of reinventing the past as a structural basis of the future”. Beitchman, P. Alchemy of the Word, State University of New York, Albany, 1998. p.99. This describes very well the underlying re-forming process which Ted undertook in his dealings with the Averse energies in the poems of Howls &Whispers.

3. Sylvia’s mother reiterates advice “like Iago”; and the go-between is an "innocent-eyed, gleeful Iago".