ATDTDA (2): Disconnection begins ... (53.35)

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 04:58 +0000, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
> "The frontier ends and disconnection begins.  Cause and effect?  How the dickens do I know? [...] But you could feel it, unmistakeably, like a divide, where you knew you could stand and piss would flow two ways at once" (pp. 53-4).
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> I sense parallels here between the beginnings of "disconnections" and Slothrop's fragmentation late in GR.
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> Likewise, I feel a sense of the "divide" experienced/sought in M&D.
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> What is the relationship between "disconnection" and the ultimate connections we find between past and present in P's canon?
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This early in the book the reader is obviously still pretty much in the
dark as to the various forms of disconnectedness the future course of
events will unfold. However it's not too early to be reminded of the
old saw about the two things you don't want to observe being made:
government policy and sausage.