AtDDtA1: The Stockyards

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 24 06:32:52 CST 2007


> "like the dark conjugate of some daylit fiction they had flown here"

Suggests the deeper meaning underlying this flight of fiction, AtD.

> "children into sleep which bringeth not reprieve from the day"

Is the actor of bring children or sleep?

(Although nominally buildings...) Children which rise not up against
the simulacrum to defeat the day of judgment go into sleep (death).

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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