Creeping Figs

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Jasper Fidget wrote:

> Me too.  I imagine Zoyd himself drifting through the creeping fig in a
> wake of sunlight.  But only if I try too hard.

Just substitute "through a glass darkly" for "through a creeping fig  
that hung in the window."


>
> On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 18:25 +0000, Carvill John wrote:
>> Much as I love Vineland, and definitely *not* wishing to stir up  
>> the whole
>> political debate around it, I've always found the opening sentence  
>> quite
>> odd:
>>
>> "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted  
>> awake in
>> sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a  
>> squadron of
>> blue jays..." etc.
>>
>> Ok, leaving everything else aside, does that 'in sunlight through'  
>> strike
>> anyone else as slightly jarring, as if we'd expect something else  
>> between
>> 'sunlight' and 'through'? Some variant on, say, 'in sunlight  
>> that', I dunno,
>> 'shone through', 'filtered through'.......?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>> JC
>>
>>
>>
>
> Now we see
> through a glass, darkly;
> then we will see face to face.
> Now I know in part;
> then I will know fully,
> even as I am fully known.

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