AtDTDA: 19 Heart of Darkness, pt. 2 [525/556]

[Cometman]

not to mention the fact, imho very soft-pedaled in the story,
that that Woevre guy buys the q-weapon (arguably the unmentionable
anti-stone Webb and Merle discussed) which for some reason
activates his conscience - and blithely hands it off to Kit.
Or rather, agonizedly hands it off to Kit, who blithely accepts it.

That's gotta mean something...this weapon would be tantamount
to the Ring in Tolkien, or Wagner...

--- Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Robin,
>   YES....right on, I think.........
>    
>   And, even reduced to its basic (as TRP wrote int he intro to Stone
> Junction: people using power against the other against their will).

> robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> >  This section of the story—an art noveau Casino in an upscale Hotel
> >in 
> >Ostend, the Gilded age at its zenith, a time when Belgium was an 
> >economic force to be reckoned with—is the Heart of Darkness for this


....
> 
> Van Wijk 

Van Wijk!  Van W - i - j - k ---- is he a quizzical, queer,
quaternioneer?  Was Pynchon putting quaternions in his fiction
back as far as V?

 Inquiring minds want to know...










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