Per MB, AtD 700-704

[Michael Bailey]

On 1/24/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Bailey is always writing:
> --
> "...there are not only landmarks, but also anti-landmarks - for every
> beacon, an episode of intentional blindness." (Professor Svegli, p248)
>
> Why Vienna?......what, if any, intentional blindness is going on?
>

I didn't pluck the quote in relation to specifically Vienna...

In ATD there are passages that you know will
get selected for analysis, and rightly so...
but other places exist where the action/prose/characters
aren't as immediately compelling.

Some on our list see the Colorado sequences that way,
but for me it was the under-sand episode and also
this part that we're on now
that don't shine brightly, at least not right away.  Also,
to some extent, all the Inner Asia stuff.
(Maybe just because I'm not nearly as familiar with the territory...
uncomfortable with BDSM and the 'stans...)
And some say, the whole book!

But we've been finding interesting and important material
in these sections anyway.

I think maybe OBA is saying something a little harder
to catch, a little further beyond my ken, in ATD than
in the previous books, and maybe this anti-beacon idea
is a clue to that?