MDMD (10) Dutch Rifles

[John Bailey]

Anyone have any information on the 'White Horsemen' with the rifles they 
style 'Sterloops'? The inverted white star comes up again later but I've 
never been able to find much significance to the gun imagery beyond the 
obvious. Which is to say, I still find it the most creepy thing this book 
has to offer, as well as offering a very cryptic conspiracy-style portent 
linking Cape slavery to American colonialism.

And while I'm here, I love the final comment by Mrs de Bosch, the town 
busybody, who says as you would expect 'I told you so', and then wonders if 
the astronomers instruments didn't end up serving some other purpose than 
measuring the stars. How would you describe that purpose? What did they do? 
That is, what exactly did the instruments do? The astronomers shook up the 
Vroom household a tiny bit, although the pieces seemed to settle relatively 
unchanged, and the Transit itself did at least temporarily alter Cape life, 
but the instruments? What did they really show people? As above, so below.


'Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower.
You know I've always loved you. '
- Lawrence Raab, Attack of the Crab Monsters


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