GRGR(14) the yarns he spun

[David Morris]

Neil hits the nail right squarely on its head.  The girls on Slothrop's map 
are all real, yet coded.  The connection to Katje across the sea makes 
perfect sense.  I think this is all connected to that "backward symmetry" 
mentioned in this section:

---------
(301.24)  There was that backward symmetry again, one that Pointsman missed, 
but Katje didn't.  "A life of its own," she said.
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But don't ask me to explain it...

DM

>From: Neil P Conaty
>
> > 302.33 : ' the yarns he spun for Tantivy '
> >  W-WHAAT?  The plot so far *may be* turned on its head with this
> >  little confession.  Could The Map have been a fabrication, then?
> >  Or at least totally misinterpreted?  Or were the yarns only name
> >  changes; throwing Speed 'n' Perdoo off the scent?
> >  We've only got our Faith to rely on now, foax.
>
>Every time I've read this before, I've had the same reaction. It is so
>shocking that I never looked at the context.
>
>"Could he live like that? Would They ever agree to let him and Katje live
>like that? He's had nothing to say to anyone about her. It's not the
>gentlemanly reflex that made him edit, switch names, insert fantasies
>into the yarns he spun for Tantivy back in the ACHTUNG office, so much as
>the primitive fear of having a soul captured by a likeness of image or by
>a name. . . . He wants to preserve what he can of her from Their several
>entropies, from Their softsoaping and Their money"
>
>He didn't make up everything. He made up the names and stories to protect
>Katje who was pointing out the same spots on her map in Holland. They
>were connected by the rocket before he ever fished her out of the sea.
>


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