GRGR 1,3 cubicle // winter birds

[Cometman]

jporter wrote:
>Hasty judgments regarding the two: the seemingly "good and
>natural" garden, and the entropic waste of the desk- not to
>mention between Pirate and Slothrop- might be unwise, however,
>given the subtleties of this text.

Another link for Slothrop's desk is with the dream hotel.
That way, the pyramid of sandbags invokes the necropolis which can
include the whole office building; 

and Slothrop shares a cube with Mucker-Maffick but with desks at right
angles so that eye contact involves "squeaking around some 90 degrees"
(p 18, ln 6-7) (probably they have swivel chairs, but don't oil them)
which makes him an inhabitant of "an invisible room" (p 4, ln 21-22) in
a way

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p 17, ln 15 - "you can hear winter birds cheeping outside, busy at the
feeders the girls have put up"

there's a very moving passage later in the book where Slothrop's Dad
explains that winter birds have ways of surviving...
also, thank goodness for those girls who put up the feeders!
(and possibly the occasional male fowlophile too - which reminds me: I
hung a suet block from my cable drop last winter and the birds still
haven't touched it, I wonder what I did wrong)