ATDTDA (5): Storytelling, 126-129 #1

[David Casseres]

"North? What searcher has ever been directed _north_? What you're supposed
to be looking for lies south – those dusky natives, right? For danger and
enterprise, they send you west, for visions, east. But what's north?

The escape route of the _Anubis_.
The Kirghiz Light.
The Herero country of death."
– GR, p. 720 (Penguin paperback 2000)

On 3/21/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
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> And with "tales of Harald the Ruthless ... sailing north ..." etc one
> might
> recall the exchange early on between Chick and Randolph: "Going up is like
> going north," etc (9). On that occasion Chick struggled to make sense of
> the
> way we represent time and space; here, myth-as-popular culture is an
> important means to deal with the unknowable, what lies ahead recast as
> what
> lies behind us. So: repetition as (re)creation, until "this current
> expedition" finds unavoidable "the chance, in this day and age, of sailing
> off the surface of the world" (128). That "in this day and age" is
> instructive: we should be beyond such fears by now, they belong to a less
> sophisticated age.
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