GRGR(33) - Summary "B"

[David Morris]

Thanks to Michael Davitt Bell
http://www.williams.edu:803/Individuals/mbell/RAINBOW.HTM

[9], 717-724. Geli Tripping (see 3: [1] and [2], above) is looking for 
Tchitcherine; she's "the only one in the Zone who loves him completely." She 
is alive to Titans, to "the green uprising," to the primal energy which we 
deny, instead promoting death (720). Cut (721) to Gottfried and Blicero 
(see, for instance, 1: [14], above). Blicero tells Gottfried about his 
search for "the edge of the World," and about earlier "edges," such as 
America, Africa--gifts, ways of "returning," which Europe refused, 
establishing instead "its order of Analysis and Death." "In time," he 
explains, "the death-colonies grew strong enough to break away [cf. 
Brenschluss?]. But the impulse to empire, the mission to propagate death, 
the structure of it, kept on." (722) "I want," he says, "to break out--to 
leave this cycle of infection and death." (723)

[10], 724-733. Enzian is transporting the Hereros' rocket (see 4: [5], 
above), the 00001, constructed from scavenged parts. We move into 
"scholasticism . . . , Rocket state-cosmology." (726) Enzian talks to 
Christian--to whom, he reflects, he must tell "everything he knows." Katje 
is with them. And nearby is fat Ludwig; he has found his lemming, Ursula, 
who peers out of his pocket (729; see 3: [25], above). Tensions between 
Enzian and the Empty Ones have reemerged, but Enzian maintains control. 
Ludwig follows on the periphery of the Herero march. "They have," he senses, 
"somewhere to go."

[11], 733-735. Geli finds Tchitcherine at last. She has put a spell on him: 
"May he be blind now to all but me." Later, the Herero convoy passes by. 
Tchitcherine, waking, stops them--and hustles some American cigarettes and 
three potatoes from Enzian, whom he does not recognize. "This is magic. 
Sure--but not necessarily fantasy. Certainly not the first time a man has 
passed his brother by, at the edge of the evening, often forever, without 
knowing it." (735)


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