V. 348

[Tim Strzechowski]

O, I agree with the harkening.  And I love the subtle little jab at all the 
"critics" of GR's "incomprehensibility":

[...] Miles bade the company consider, in tones of urgency they seldom heard 
from him, the nature of a skyrocket's ascent, in particular that unseen 
extension of the visible trail, after the propellant charge burns out, yet 
before the slow-match has ignited the display -- that implied moment of 
ongoing passage upward, in the dark sky, a linear continuum of points 
invisible yet present, just before lights by the hundreds appear --

"Stop, stop!" Darby clutching his ears comically, "it sounds like Chinese!" 
(p. 112)


heheheh   Beautifully written ... and amusing!




>I have noticed that AtD, in particular, seems to harken back to past
> books much more than any of his other works.  [...]