Atdtda29: Inevitable Graz, 811

[Paul Nightingale]

If 57.3 ends with the manipulation of choice in the automatic restaurant
(810), the new section begins with Yashmeen--not identified by name--musing
on "the complete ensemble of 'free choices' that define the course of a
human life" (811). Here, she considers the railway, with progression defined
in linear fashion, eg: "Stations one by one entered the past". On 808: "...
and even Ratty McHugh, his life like everyone else's these days run more and
more by train schedules ..." etc. And then, on 810, Ratty bemoaning
constraints: "I would intervene, if I could" (the punctuation in that
sentence is key).

The "journey between worlds" (811) means Yashmeen might "be mistaken now and
then for one of the nightwalking ladies who worked in the area". Another
transformation, then. And this is where "Cyprian ha[s] arranged for her to
stay": the railway has served his purpose here.

Ch57 begins with Cyprian in Trieste complaining of a map so small "there
isn't even room ... to spell out their names" (807). He then meets with
Yashmeen in Vienna (808), and then, a few lines down the page, Ratty in
Graz. The current section takes Yashmeen from Vienna to Trieste, concluding
with Theign (in Trieste on 806: "look[ing] in" as earlier, on 800) having
"largely abandoned Venice for Vienna".