AtD (37) p.1059 "wide-awake hat", Virgil?, "it had not happened yet"

[Mark Kohut]

P 1058   

"wide-brim black hat"...these 'wide-awake hats' always strike me as resting on the hats of the generally enlightened---or that guy in Big Lebowski....Virgil is linked with the ancient wise-man personage of the hermit Tarot card..... 

Virgil is Jardine's father. is the Aeneid relevant here?  

"It proclaimed the Imperial mission of the Roman Empire, while at the same time pitying Rome's victims and feeling their grief. Aeneas was considered to exemplify virtue and pietas (roughly translated as "piety", though the word is far more complex and has a sense of being duty-bound and respectful of divine will, family and homeland). Nevertheless, Aeneas struggles between doing what he wants as a man, and doing what he must as a virtuous hero. In the view of some modern critics, Aeneas' inner turmoil and shortcomings make him a more realistic character than the heroes of Homeric poetry, such as Odysseus.

 Later views of Virgil
Even as the Roman empire collapsed, literate men acknowledged that the Christianized Virgil was a master poet. Gregory of Tours read Virgil, whom he quotes in several places, along with some other Latin poets, though he cautions that "we ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death". The Aeneid remained the central Latin literary text of the Middle Ages and retained its status as the grand epic of the Latin peoples, and of those who considered themselves to be of Roman provenance, such as the English. It also held religious importance as it describes the founding of the Holy City. Virgil was made palatable for his Christian audience also through a belief in his prophecy of Christ in his Fourth Eclogue."

 More self-justifying anarchist bombing talk THEN it gets really weird. Lew sees Jardine Maraca "passing so smoothly among the guests"...BUT he realizes, "not only might Jardine be dead but also that it had not happened yet. "      OK, WTF???/   Where are we in Time?   What is this
"alternate reality" yet to happen?....in which the smooth Jardine is ALREADY dead? Why is Lew

 so accepting of this...........surreal............situation? Because he "accepts things as they are"?

p 256---what they saw "now" in the sights was in fact what did not yet exist but what would only be a few seconds from "now" ....

What's this all about?....