Re GR square brackets

[jbor]

on 19/10/01 9:33 AM, Jasper Fidget at fakename at tokyo.com wrote:

> The statement, "I know what your editors want" would be directed
> toward the reporter/interviewer, and "We drank the blood of our enemies"
> would therefore follow "A Raketen-Stadt Charlie Noble, you might say....",
> just continuing the response to the question.

Yes, perhaps, but it's the repetition of this sentence further down the
page, followed by the sentence "The blood of our friends, we cherished",
which *is* inside the parenthesis, and which is perhaps the climax of this
segment of text. Because of the way that the voice in parenthesis mimics the
words of the spokesman (in two of the three intrusions at least, the long
central parenthesis seems to respond sarcastically to the Spokesman's joke
about Charlie Noble) -- each time almost mockingly to my ear -- I'm more
inclined to the view that this voice is neither the WSJ Interviewer nor the
Spokesman, nor that the comments have anything at all to do with "Slothrop
qua Slothrop". In other words, it is extraneous to the dialogue. The years
referenced in the parenthesis would be additional support for this
conjecture.

best