GRGR(16): The Aqyn's song

[Peter Petto]

Jeremy Osner was right-on when he wrote:

>The sentence, "Tchitcherine understands, abruptly,
>that soon someone will come and begin to write some of these down in the New
>Turkic Alphabet he had helped frame . . . and this is how they will be lost,"
>I get the impression here that T. recognizes his own role, and then the line
>"'In stenography,' replies T., his g a little glottal," it's subtle but I
>think that carries the self-recognition across into the recording of the
>Aqyn's song. -- Because why drop that little not about the glottal g in
>stenography, except to highlight how the alphabet issues are weighing on T's
>mind?

I'd think that knowing that Tchitcherine's real mission in the Zone was 
private, obsessive; it's no great leap of faith to infer that he had 
agendas of his own during the Kirghiz flashback.

And Jermy asked:

>Does anyone have any speculation as to (a) what the Kirghiz light is, (b) how
>T. heard about it, (c) why he wants to see it?

(a) religious experience of cosmic consciousness
(b) certainly from the Aqyn in his song, possibly before that
(c) it's better than dope ??