Atdtda28: Paralyzed for days, 783

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 14:03:27 CDT 2008


On 7/11/08, Paul Nightingale <isread at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Action commences, finally, with drumming; although this activity is
>  accompanied by Kit's near paralysis. Given that the drummer(s) cannot be
>  identified, this passage offers "the taiga inscrutable and vast" as author,
>  or perhaps collective author. For the first time Kit is associated with "the
>  Event", the drumming a form of representation: "... he thought he heard
>  something familiar in it",

probably a long stretch, but
I'm feeling some parallels between
the drumming on the taiga and "Kieselguhr's" bombings...
as background for different stages of Kit's life

or maybe it's the pink tabs...



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