Atdtda29: Like God, the present tense, 835

[Mark Kohut]

Paul wrote:
  Which of course takes us back to the beginning of Atdtda29, to Theign's
"almost godlike [perspective]" on 807.
   
  Theign, master spy, has a lower-case godlike [perspective].....he can see everything......
  a certain kind of paranoid's idea of hell, perhaps.......................................
   
  Theign, spy; Danilo, salt of the earth.....


Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
  [835.14-16] ... though it was now of the essence to find one's way inside
the moment, with death invisible and everywhere, "like God, it occurred to
Danilo afterward.


Which of course takes us back to the beginning of Atdtda29, to Theign's
"almost godlike [perspective]" on 807.


And then there's that "it occurred to Danilo afterward". The fast-forward is
a feature of AtD. Cf. the Theign/Max Klautsch insert on 812: "Discussing it
later in Vienna ..." etc, such moments--scattered throughout--asking us to
consider the present tense of the novel. 




       
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