GR the Heresy Question
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 23 08:43:28 CDT 2003
Can you point out some portion, even a word, which says anything about the
Herero or Enzian in this section?
DM
--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 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.
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