Atdtda27: Noted troublemakers, 757-758

[Paul Nightingale]

A bizarre interlude featuring the tweed-clad Al Mar-Fuad, whose presence is
anachronistic, imposing American cultural imperialism onto the European
colonial struggle that is nominally the context. In response to Halfcourt’s
“we declare ourselves at your service, sir”, AM-F points out that he “must
surrender the city to the Doosra”, ie he answers a meaningless pleasantry
with an impossible political demand. Evidently, meaning is lost in
translation as they perform diplomacy, just as AM-F’s assumption of the
persona of a film character posing as an English country gent is itself, in
context, inappropriate. Furthermore, has he assumed a “difficulty with the
prevocal r typical of the British upper class” to add verisimilitude to his
performance? Or has the latter perhaps been chosen to accompany his way of
speaking?

Prokladka has, it seems, been “eavesdropping” (758), which reminds us that,
previously, the narrative has emphasised that which is overheard: hence the
incongruity of AM-F’s presence is succeeded by the exposure of
Prokladka-as-eavesdropper.

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