AtD p848. "as if he were aloft"

[Mark Kohut]

'as if he were aloft, maintaining an angle of attack into the advance edges of a storm none would have seen to the end of. It surprised him and did not surprise him"
   
  Please comment......I'm going aloft here myself with some text speculation.
   
  I think someone at the Chumps of Choice blogread says that this is about the midpoint of part Four of AtD. Given TRPs overarching orchestration, his deep musical internalization, I'm going to think this note that ends this section is just like a symphony foreshadowing [of the end--and (some of) its meaning.    notice the phrasing:
   
  Speculation (SPOILER for newcomers who have not finished AtD yet):   This is how the Chums go aloft........into a storm----the next war, GR----they could not see the end of. They, formerly an immature whole sick crew, are all grown up, married. working for themselves, seemingly in a vernal equipoise BUT ..............between the wars will not last forever.
   
  Yet, they, like Cyprian, and we (as we believe in and want to live up to TRPs notions of character) should be surprised by this yet not--simultaneously. Another meaning to co-consciousness?     and/or that olde Iceland Spar trick?.....
  ??????
   
   

        
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