GRGR(29): Some Are "E"

[Jeremy Osner]

Well, no-one volunteered for this slot, guess I'll try'n do my part...

Roger's, like Pirate, driving a hijacked vehicle. (This one contains
toxic bottles of  babyfood, though we are not yet let in on why.) This
chapter tells of Roger's transition into paranoiac consciousness; it
averages 1.73 bl/p (belly laughs per page), high even for such a humerus
novel as Gravity's Rainbow.

Jessica left, she went to Cuxhafen (wait *Cuxhaven* -- 'n isn't that
where Slothrop was last we saw him, before he went into the mountains?
Everything seems to be coming together in Cuxhaven); Roger is singing a
song "to the girl who still bears her name". Near as I can tell, Roger
is driving at the same time as Pirate is flying, because they are on the
same mission; and the rest of the chapter occurs back in London at some
time shortly prior to the Marvy incident (because Pointsman is not yet
disgraced/demoted).

The heart of the chapter is when Milton Gloaming comes to a heartbroken
Roger and gives him enough information to piece together that there is a
conspiracy going on, and that Pointsman is heavily implicated. And that
Pointsman is taking advantage of Roger's well-meaning desire to "do
what's right" by Slothrop. So he goes to Mossmoon's office (abusing
along the way a Transylvanian psychic and a German secretary) and pees
on the faces of power. Whereupon he is welcomed into the Counterforce by
Pirate, Milton, Jan Otyiyumbu, Osbie Feel and Gwenhidwy among others.

Jeremy Renso

--
The current age, if it is to become the
epoch of unbounded... consciousness, must
find and make ready the... movement forth
from within the labyrinth of... objective
knowledge and subjective self-knowledge,
of known mortality and imagined immortality.

Coming out of the Cave
http://www.readin.com/books/hohlenausgange