GR | Spoiler | Bilicero @ The Heath...

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Wed Mar 7 05:36:17 CST 2007


TRA:
> So a relevant question here would be: why do the 
> doors at the sides of the windmill open and shut 
> quickly? Is there something inside, trying to get 
> out, or someone outside trying to get in? Or is it 
> just the wind?


Oh, definitely just the wind. Plain ol' friendly wind. None of your
multivalent reticulated metaphors there.

***

"Once transected into the realm of Dominus Blicero[...] Roland too became
conscious of the wind, as his mortality had never allowed him. Discovered it
so . . . so joyful, that the arrow must veer into it. The wind had been
blowing all year long, year after year, but Roland had felt only the secular
wind . . . he means, only his personal wind. Yet . . . Selena, the wind, the
wind's everywhere . . . ." (30)

"[Pokler] looked up and saw Kurt Mondaugen. The wind all night, perhaps all
year, had brought them together. This is what he came to believe, that it
was the wind." (161)

"The Rocket creating its own great wind . . . no wind without both, Rocket
and atmosphere . . . but inside the venturi, breath-furious and blazing
breath-always flows at the same unchanging speed . . . can't you really
see?" (454)

Just the wind.





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