GRGR(30): The Golden Bitch

[Jeremy Osner]

You read for a moment before you realize who is riding into town on a
stolen bicycle, I do anyways, even now that I know it's Katje, I'm
usually at the end of the first paragraph before I realize who is being
talked about. (Though I think my first time or two through the book, it
may have taken even longer.) We haven't really seen too much of K since
the time we spent at the Casino HG, besides in that wierd taffee-pulling
dream a few chapters back.

I don't quite get why Katje is having an American Racial Fantasy -- is
this a European Racial Fantasy? I can't quite tell the difference.

An intriguing line: "Pan was a lousy lover. Today, in public, they have
no more than nervous glances for each other." -- it's not clear to me
whether "they" is Katje and Pan, or Katje and the African sentry. Is the
African sentry an avatar of Pan? -- he seems pretty quiet, for such a
being.

--
"To see the light of the world", as a description
of the process of birth, we hear from the mouths
of those who believe themselves already to be
standing in the light of the world, triumphant.

Coming out of the Cave
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