GRGR3: Discussion Opener for Section 3

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk (Andrew Dinn) wrote:

     [...]
>4)  "Most skate tangent to the holy circle, some stay, some are off
>    again to other rooms" (30.7) Why is the seance ring `holy'?
     [...]
>13) "four-way entente" (31.24) Imagine this as a diamond shape.

Well, I prefer to imagine it as an (un?)"holy circle" with four people
seated at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees.  This image will recur throughout
the novel:  Slothrop's "ROCKETMAN WAS HERE" grafitto from p. 624, which
brings with it the realization that, "what he was really drawing was the
A4 rocket, seen from below," the mandala-like design of the Herero
villages, and many other instances noted by readers more perceptive than
myself in standard GR litcrit works.

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