Re GR square brackets
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 19 23:15:25 CDT 2001
jbor wrote:
>
> I think that in the interview the Spokesman is talking about the way
> Slothrop became like a teacher or (false?) Messiah, to the Schwarzkommando
> in particular (the reference to Christian on p. 738 and the mention of the
> "black honor-guard on p. 739 seems to point this way).
A role Enzian struggles with and against. At several points Enzian is
called on to be Christ, but he's mapped onto Moses. But why the
*black* honor-guard?
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