GRGR(14) the yarns he spun

[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.

-Neil









	
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