Apocalypse: "Not for Sale in Canada"

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> There are "naturalistic" elements, however, surely? even down to that
> very
> precise "6:43:16 BDST" ref
> > even then, well, IS it ever really nailed down that that's a
> > V-2 there?
> 
> It's the rocket with the message from Katje, isn't it?

Fearing to tread, but...

There are lots of really tasty naturalistic bits... a splendid example
being the contrail of the rocket that Pirate observes from the roof
after he wakes up from the dream.  These naturalistic bits are
assembled into a freaky and proudly unnaturalistic whole. I had an
argument once with someone who thought that that contrail shredding
back and forth in the wind was supposed to be symbolic of something,
but I think not.  That is what happens to a real missile contrail is
all.  It is this rocket that bears Katjes message, falling short of
London proper and failing to explode, just pulverizing itself as it
hits the ground. Whomp. All that kinetic energy converted to heat in a
trice, causing the graphite cylinder to get toasty and burn the fingers
of the ranking officer who hollers Oh Fuck to the cheers and laughter
of the lower pay-grades.  I just love it. I don't think this actual
rocket can figure at all as an element in Pirates Dream.

The screaming coming across the sky is undoubtedly, in the first
instance, air-raid sirens.  It is a dream, and so the screaming can be
all sorts of other things simultaneously, of course.  It's fun to
speculate what such a dream element might mean to the dreaming
character, but recall Freud's reassurance that only the dreamer can
have enough of the right data to interpret a dream. An external
interpreter will never get it right. But this is a fictional character
who, therefore, isn't dreaming and can't do the interpreting, and so we
are free to have fun interpreting ourselves, aren't we?

Or some such truck,
Mark






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