A terrible time

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
> (360.39)Because it seems a while back they did meet again by the
> reedy edge 
> of a marsh south of the capital.  Unshaven, sweating, stinking
> Rocketman 
> [...]
> Here he's got the title before it's actually given him in that
> pregnant 
> moment.  Is this a memory, fantasy?  Is this the first usage of the 
> "Rocketman" title?

Slothrop is Rocketman at 360.34 a line or two earlier.  Perhaps the
weak hallucinating Slothrop has recognized his rocketude in this
dream-state, and this dreamy self-recognition surfaces in the instant
his inherent rocketude is manifest to Saure, Trudy and Magda: a
stoner's illumination.  The extended episode with Enzian seems reortage
by the narrator, because we return to Slothrop's 'present' at 364.14
"Later in Berlin...." and  brief description of his response to the
encounter, we get sick Slothrop's brief rumination about Schwartzstoff,
Tannhauser and W. Slothrop, and spin off into reportage about Greta
Erdmann.

(This is one of my favorite parts...:)

mark
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