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

[Mark Kohut]

Some thoughts......on disconnection.
   
  Frontier "life" meant largely an agricultural land of "ranges".....general self-sufficiently with "neighbors" helping....barn-raising, etc.....
  When the frontier ended, social life....changed.....it went upward into hiercarchies, authority,
  loss of neighbors, everyone knowing everyone else---literal "disconnection", mobile strangers, etc, and more,

Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> 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).



I sense parallels here between the beginnings of "disconnections" and Slothrop's fragmentation late in GR.


Likewise, I feel a sense of the "divide" experienced/sought in M&D.


What is the relationship between "disconnection" and the ultimate connections we find between past and present in P's canon?



 
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