ATDTDA (14): A little ramshackle for a time machine, 401-405

kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Fri Aug 10 11:48:35 CDT 2007


I read an essay (totally forget name, author) re: Brigadier Pudding's strange appetite in GR.  The author related this to his quasi-nostalgia for the carnage of blood, mud, shit and putrescence that was WWI.  The Chums may just be getting a good whiff of the impending war.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com>

Later, during the time-travel sequence: "Everywhere rose the
>smell of excrement and dead tissue" (404), which might recall the descent
>into Chicago on 10.





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