ATD the norse/nunatak/serpent/odialesque thing

[rich]

On 4/1/07, John BAILEY <JBAILEY at theage.com.au> wrote:
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> My current thinking is that it ties in with the idea of History narrowing
> to inevitabilities, always a bad thing in P's writing, a field of
> possibilities always preferable to a necessity. .... there are sometimes
> tiny narrow points we have to pass through, and when we come out the other
> side we'll be different, or at least feel ourselves to be entering a
> different landscape. You can't look back through these gates.
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is this what makes the Trespassers so unsettling and shady?  that they are
looking back if not in desperation to flee the future then for some other
nefarious reason?

rich
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