Atdtda23: Overview, Chs46+

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Fri Dec 7 01:34:07 CST 2007


Atdtda23 continues with Ch46 (652-660) and concludes with the first three
sections of Ch47 (661-667), subdivided as follows:

[46.1i] Nervous in tight places, 652-653
Reef is a tool of progress in a seller's market

[46.1ii] A long-standing blood vendetta, 653-654
Reef is reminded of tradition

[46.1iii] The mountains are much older, 654-656
Reef is confronted by nature and the question of belief

[46.2i] Leisured balneomaniacs of the era, 656-657
Ruperta is given the opportunity to sign autographs

[46.2ii] The watershed moment, 657-658
Reef and Ruperta discuss old times while Rodolfo sleeps

[46.3] Hello, Reef, 658-659
Reef believes in nature and imposes debt on Ramiz

[46.4] Your father's son, 659-660
A friendly traveller reminds Reef that he used to be a contender

[47.1] Same journey as Riemann, 661-662
Kit and Yashmeen find that travel often involves a fourth dimension 

[47.2] Choice, 662-664
Kit and Yashmeen finally pay their respects to a father-figure

[47.3i] It would have taken him a minute anyway, 664-665
Told to act normal, Kit doesn't immediately recognise Reef

[47.3ii] Pretty close then, 665-667
Reef discovers the hard way that meaning is sometimes lost in translation




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