ATDTDA (15): Squealing is good for you, 420-422 #1

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/17/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:

> The account of Alonzo's visit to the Commandant is marked by his silence; no
> squealing here as the Commandant does all the talking, "opiatedly explaining
> . to the young informant, as he had dozens of times previous, everything,
> everything". Repetition, then, "the tranquil Old Man with syrup-slow ease
> continuing his digression ." etc (422)....
>
> The Commandant's paranoid discourse, like that of Kafka's burrower, is one
> that can never end, "headed for the Point at Infinity along a great slow
> curve" ...

And yet we don't hear--or, at any rate, read--a single line of it.  Creepy ...