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

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 9 09:33:59 CST 2005


OK.  As you might tell by my question, I'm not actually reading along with 
the group right now, just relying on memory having read GR 5 times already.  
But lets examine this further, trying to make sense of this statement 
alongside the factthat Slothrup is already making a map of these bomb 
strikes.  To whom is this new bomb "Most Secret?"  Not to Pirate, and not to 
Slothup (so it would seem).  Obviously this is being kept secret from the 
British public, most likely to supress possible panic.  That does not 
necesarily mean that this is the first one to strike London.

Ghetta

>From: Cometman <cometman_98 at yahoo.com>
>
>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Where did you get the idea that the "incoming mail" rocket was the 
>“first” V-2?  I don't think the book says that.
>
>p6, line 26-30
>"What is it?  Nothing like this ever happens.  But Pirate knows it, after 
>all.  He has seen it in a film, just in the last fortnight....it's a vapor 
>trail.  Already a finger's width higher now.  But not from an airplane.  
>Airplanes are not launched vertically. This is the new, and still Most 
>Secret, German rocket bomb."

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