GR the Heresy Question

[jbor]

    The tour now takes Pirate out into an open courtyard, where a small
    crowd has formed around one of the Erdschweinhöhle delegates in a
    rip-roaring argument with some advertising executive over what else
    but the Heresy Question, already a pebble in the shoe of the
    Convention, and perhaps to be the rock on which it will founder.
                                                                (538)

Don't know if the delegate is necessarily Enzian, but it's certainly one of
his posse. The Heresy Question would be the assorted Christ and Moses myths
which have been built up around Enzian by the Zone-Hereros, wouldn't it?
Enzian's one of the Counterforce's trump cards and great (non-)white hopes.
The advertising exec. might just be telling the delegate that promoting
Enzian as a new Saviour ain't gonna sell, and that maybe they should be
working on a new marketing strategy if the Schwarzkommando is gonna come on
board with the Counterforce. But the delegate is sticking to his guns, and
to his faith. Meanwhile, the reader already knows that Enzian knows that all
the religious hoopla surrounding him is just a sham.

The tone of the narrative voice in this whole section sounds flip,
facetious, as though it's mocking the whole crazy circus, and Pirate and
Katje too.

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on 22/4/03 3:21 PM, Scott Badger wrote:

>> What about that delegate?
> 
> Enzian?
> 
>> Why is he arguing with an advertising executive?
> 
> 
> Over death and return? Stillness? More likely, names and methods.