GRGR(7) summary of chapter 18

[Lars Frehse]

Hi everybody,
sorry I´m behind my schedule but I got a sun-stroke spending the weekend
at the Baltic sea and needed some time to recover. Now, my head´s still
hurting, but at least it doesn´t feel as if everything inside has
molten.
Once again I´ll quote Dr Daws "Summary of Gravity´s Rainbow" for
starters:

"(18) Carroll Eventyr feels a victim of his freak talent, as Nora
Dodson-Truck once called it, his "splendid weakness." The
surrender to forces Outside is his only gift. Many odd talents are
drawn to Psi-section, like Gavin Trefoil with his characteristic
autochromatism. He is a human chameleon whose melanocytes
are part of his central nervous system. Rollo Groast writes "The
Parable of the Body Cells" about it, in elaborate homage to his
childhood tales. It is the Myth of the return. Mircea Eliade.
Fragments of Vessels broken at the Creation. A messenger from
the Kingdom arriving at the last moment. But there is no such
message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . no
more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. Nora has
turned her face, more than once, to the Outer Radiance, and simply
seen nothing there. And so each time has taken a little more of the
Zero into herself. Basher St. Blaise sees an Angel during a raid
over Lübeck, droning across in front of the fiery leagues of face,
the eyes, which went towering for miles, shifting to follow their
flight. It is the Judgement card of Ouspensky's Tarot, all over again."

Lars