ATDTDA (33) - p. 924-6 peyote

[Mark Kohut]

The Trespassers are linked with the speeded-up technology of modernity....Bi-plane,
  railroads..........??
  I suggest time is what is transgressed. trespassed on, so to speak. 

David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  
Or could the trespassers be in Frank's present: the archaeologists digging up sacred ruins -- a type of trespassing by "time travelers" of a different sort? 

Note that the winged beasts in Frank's vision were manifested by the appearance of the bi-plane (again, tresspassing in Frank's present), and note, too, a few pages later (930): "It [railway] penetrated, it broke apart cities [....]"

Which makes Frank's present echoic of Wren's theory of the displacement of the peoples of Southwest by winged beasts and snakes (railway?). (And future transgressions, as noted by Laura, are more echoes?)

Frank's vision feels like some sort of "bi-location" of time -- two different times occurring simultaneously -- the city of the past and the tresspassers of today....

I feel like the Chums, way back on page 416 trying to decide who the Trespasser are! 


Mark wrote:

> We have transgressed..........................we creators/victims of modernity
> who NOW regret...???
> 
>> kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> The Trespassers are us, resource-poor, seeking to pillage the past (start with fossil fuels and take it from there). Evilly rapacious, but sympathetic in their/our nostalgia and grief over what's been lost?

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