GRGR(18): Finding Lisaura

[Jeremy Osner]

Mark Wright AIA wrote:

>  He's been  set up (?) to meet Greta

Let's try and figure out who would have an interest in Slothrop and Greta
getting together... I can't see how Tchitcherine could possibly care about
that; plus if he had done it, I would think he and his sidekick would have
made some kinda reference to it in the previous episode. Which leaves Them,
the Ones who track Tchitcherine's and Enzian's movements, and try to keep
tabs on Slothrop as well. I don't know what their interest in Greta is;
I've forgotten what role she plays in the rest of the book. (To tell the
truth, we're getting close to the end of what I've understood in GR in the
past -- maybe 50 pages more or so.) Was Slothrop interrogated in the
abandoned movie studio, or moved there after Tchitcherine left him? A-and
is there any relation between the abandoned movie studio, and the place
where Squalidozzi met Waxwing and von Göll, or just two totally different
places? For some reason in previous readings I have thought they were the
same place, but now I'm not so sure.

Bonus question: how powerful is Waxwing?

Jeremy