GRGR(9) - The Two Orders

[David Morris]

The Casino H.G. is a pivotal book.  The two orders are revealed here.  These
are the most numinous, directly potent with message, explication of the
structure of THEM, so far...  Two scenes reveal the message:

In the first (202.13), Slothrop is ALONE at high noon in the Casino proper.
There he discovers an order "systematically hidden from the likes of
Slothrop."  This order runs parallel to the one seen by schlemiels,
normally.  Intentions are different there, coded for the cognocenti, foreign
to the everyday.  GAMES designed for the profit of the House MASKING as fun.

The second scene in this pivotal book is in GRGR(10), (208.14).  !!!MINOR
SPOILER!!!:

Slothrop surprises Katje who's standing ALONE in the Casino.  No other
details here on that scene yet.

These two scenes REVEAL to Slothrop some truth.  Regarding that truth,
Slothrop asks the poignant question, "Why here" (203.10) Why does the place
of the Casino game room open the door to Slothrop's "Forbidden Wing."  Also,
whence commeth this "great sucking sound"?  Gore's Snores?

Reversal of Fortune:  It is a coin whose sides have flipped, landing across
the zero.  It is a candle burning against the curse.


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