GRGR(14) the yarns he spun

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Yes! Real and fantastic, parody and comedy. They are knotted
into each other. 




David Morris wrote:
> 
> 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.
> ---------
> 
> 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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