GRGR(9) - The Golden Root/Man

[David Morris]

(202.35)  There may, for a moment, have been some golden, vaguely rootlike 
or manlike figure beginning to form among the brown and bright cream shadows 
and light here.  But Slothrop isn't to be let off quite so easy.  Shortly, 
unpleasantly so, it will come to him that everything in this room is really 
being used for something different.  Meaning things to Them it has never 
meant to us. Never. Two orders of being, looking identical... but, but...
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Nobody yet has given their take on this passage, and it seems to occupy an 
important place and time in the narrative, just before a "revelation."  The 
presence might have "let Slothrop off easy," but instead he get's this "Two 
Orders" revelation.  The implication is he'd be better off ignorant.  O-or 
maybe that revelation is false?  Does anyone out there have another take on 
this passage?  I'm at a loss on this one...

David Morris

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