Atdtda[4]: 107.1- 108.39 Summary

[Bryan Snyder]

you know - i glossed over the whole volcanic island section... i just
couldn't "get it" and will have to re-read.

it seems every TP book i read gets re-read during the initial read.... :(

On 3/9/07, Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> We find the Chums of Chance flying over the Indian Ocean (107.19-20),
> following instructions that came a week earlier.  These instructions
> were not very clear; further ones would follow, "from a station unnamed,
> at a distance indetermined" (107.10-11), one of several objects or
> instances without a name in this chapter, which seems to raise doubts
> for its existence.  The instructions come over a "Tesla device"
> (according to the pynchonwiki a radio).  They follow the westerlies --
> so they come out of the east - or East.  Even the "unimaginative
> Lindsay" (107.15) gets a little bit nervous when the device starts
> talking, "hoarse wispering." (107.17)  Direction is more or less the
> Amsterdam and St Paul islands.
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> They fly not too high, and the Ch o Ch notice small, volcanic,
> uninhabited isles that bear no more a name, as they did once, causing
> its disappearance from the maps; the Invisible with capital I is there
> again (107.3).  "[M]ystery" (107.11) is enlarged by the presence of
> ships  war-like armaments --what is carried out down there?-- available
> only to the European powers.  There seems to be no real visible reason
> or their presence.
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> And then, the island of St. Masque: it seems to be unhabited but that is
> not true: after a while bare-footed inhabitants of a small town, which
> is simply Home for its population, appear: "What is home where you came
> from?" (108.23).  Chuck gets to speak to a survivor of the H.M.S
> Megaera, stranded with 400 at Amsterdam 30 years earlier.  "Curious"
> (108.39)
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> Curious -- that is this chapter indeed, not only section 10.1.
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