GRGR -1,3 Narrative arc, fanciful comparison, Bloat fulcrum / time frame

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 09/11/2005 Ghetta Life wrote:

> the "incoming mail" rocket was the “first” V-2?  I don't think the 
> book says that.

Pirate thinks to himself that "[t]his is the new, and still Most 
Secret, German rocket bomb" on p. 6, and it's implied that it's the 
very first one by virtue of the fact that, before this one, he had only 
"seen it in a film" (same para). I guess Pirate could have been away on 
a mission for a couple of months (since summer, in fact, for Slothrop 
times the arrival of the first V-2 precisely on p. 26, and there have 
indeed been any number of rocket strikes in the meantime). But Pirate 
has obviously been briefed so would have known that it was not the 
first one even if he had been away ...

There are a couple of ... let's say inconsistencies ... in the first 
few sections. Like the fact that the "screaming" which opens the text 
can't really be the sound of that morning's "incoming mail" rocket from 
Holland (but was possibly intended to be just that).

Deliberate or not?

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