AtD 16, pages 437+

[Michael Lee Bailey]

Mark Kohut 
    Sent: Friday, August 31
>    Okay foax,
>    If we know" the map is not the territory" [not going to source; I'm not >as thorough as Dave M. and I'm okay with that] then is having a map to go >under the territory--the Sands---a way
>    of really entering the territory?....Is it a "progressive knotting-into' >in that early GR phrase?
 
had resolved to answer this eventually...
it's not timely, and I'm ok with that (-;

a) Literally comparing the passages:
the map is a hoax (probably), "the Evacuation still proceeds,
but it is all theatre" -- their subsand motion compared & contrasted
to the progressive knotting-into scene in GR is less nightmarish,
less anonymous, less apocalyptic, less compressed - but similarly surreal
 
their pilgrimage devolving into crusade & their acceptance
thereof would make them part of the elect, or at least
aspirants (maybe at the level of Pirate Prentice, eh?) 
rather than of the preterite 

b) viewing the whole episode under the
rubric of the metaphor "sands of time" 
might be indicative that we are still
following the time travel "vector" within the book
(oh god, I'm fishing up a dripping boot of ideas here -
if there is in fact a time travel vector to be plotted,
then what other vectors might be on display too? Is there
any virtue in using the notion of "vectors" to analyze
the text, or is it just a word-substitution gimmick?)