ATDTDA (5) mass conveyance

[Ya Sam]

Congrats, Bekah, nice start. But I also encourage everyone to bring up the 
earlier episodes if they think those hadn't been given due attention. I 
don't think there was good discussion of the very ending of section No 5 in 
which Hunter embarks on some strange vehicle evacuating people from the city 
ruined by the Figure. What's that, a time machine? An inter-dimensional 
ferry? Also note the way Hunter's ramblings and his coming across a rusty 
ancient-looking building echo Lew Basnight's kafkaesque wanderings until he 
finds a strange hotel.


'He followed the group dumbly down a flight of winding metal steps to an 
electric-lit platform where others, quite a few others in fact, were 
boarding a curious mass conveyance, of smooth iron
painted a dark shade of industrial gray, swept and sleek, with the pipework 
of its exhaust manifold led outside the body, running lights all up and down 
its length. [...] Occasionally, through the
windows, inexplicably, there were glimpses of the city above them, though 
how deep beneath it they were supposed to be traveling was impossible to 
tell. [...] The longer they traveled, the more “futuristic” would the 
scenery grow. Hunter was on his way to refuge, whatever that might have come 
to mean anymore, in this world brought low.' (155)

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