ATDTDA (33) - p. 935-9 Coombs De Bottle

[kelber at mindspring.com]

My flurry of posts arrived totally out of order, but you correctly figured out that this is the first.

I think you're right about there being two different maps.  Mea culpa!

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>Laura,
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>  I think most of your remarks on the map are right on, as we used to say, and I am rereading the text, your emails and my own mind before responding.
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>  I do want to suggest though that I think the map is a new and different one from the one introduced in the last section. Cyprian seemed to see that one in that section and in this section it is said that this map was unlike any he had ever seen before.................
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>  Or am I getting it wrong?
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>  Mark
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>kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>  Who is Coombs De Bottle? Comes the battle?
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>We've met him twice before (thanks to Pynchon wiki): pages 234 and 691.
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>Lew consults Dr. De Bottle during his investigation of the Gentleman Bomber. When we first meet De Bottle, he's an eccentric working for the Foreign Office (precursor to the White Visitation). He's an expert on phosgene, and a little overly concerned with the safety of anarchist bomb-makers. Now we learn he's been sacked by the F.O. for trying to instruct anarchists on Bomb Building Safety.
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>He shows Y-C-R a map printed in violet ink (presumably the score-card/map of Bosnia Ratty produced in the last section). Not only is this a map of many wedge-shaped places, it's also a map of the future. 
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>(p. 936): "You'll note a bold horizontal line, along which certain disagreeable events, attributed to 'Germany,' are scheduled to occur, unless someone can prevent them."
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>In following e-mails, some issues this pithy little section brings up.
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