let 'em eat amotal

[Dennis Jones]

        Seeing the rockets, falling predominantly "all over the fucking East 
End" Thomas Gwenhidwy gives us and a disbelieving Pointsman his vision of 
the City Paranoic: a  buffer zone of preterite lives "meant to go down 
first".[GR p.173 Pelican Ed.] "what if the city were a growing neoplasm, 
across the centuries, always chang-ing, to meet exactly the chang-ing shape 
of its very worst se-cret fears? The raggedy pawns, the disgraced bish-op 
and cowardly knight, all we condemned, we irreversibly lost, are left out 
here, exposed and wait-ing. It was known, don't deny it - _known_ Pointsman! 
that the front in Eu-rope someday _must_ develop like  this? move away east, 
make the rockets necessary, and _known_ how , and where , the rockets would 
fall short." 
        There are strong reasons for suspecting that even TP may have fallen 
short on  the paranoia here. David Irving(e?), in his 'The Mare's Nest', 
points out that, thanks to their cracking of the Enigma code and using 
turned agents, the powers that be were able to feed the Germans doctored 
feedback on rocket explosion sites and thereby convince them that they were 
overshooting London. Co-ordinates were duly adjusted and the rockets began 
to rain down on the "east and south of the river too, where all the bugs 
live"[GR]. They would no doubt argue that, in order to be plausible, the 
disinformation had to be fairly close to the truth, but was the alternative, 
undershooting, ever considered? " I say chaps, why don't we tell Jerry that 
The Great Unwashed are taking a pounding. That way they'll drop the wretched 
blighters out West in suburbia." A chill silence falls in the Ops Room. 
"...Um, just an idea,you know."
        d.j.