ATDTDA (5) mass conveyance

[Joseph T]

On Apr 2, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Joseph T wrote:

> I thought it was a subway,  which did exist at the time and which  
> would have been very strange to Hunter, probably no subways in  
> Iceland.
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
>
>> 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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