ATD: unanswered questions #2

[Bekah]

On Sep 20, 2008, at 6:33 AM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> So, singling up all lines, like, you'll forgive me, Wallace
> on
> a string- no matter how good the reason for taking the
> easy way out- might not be the wisest approach to
> understanding one's fate- separate or communal?
>
> But aren't readers invited to "single up all lines" from line
> one? Something feels not quite right about that perspective.


I think that the "Single up all the lines," is part dare,  part irony  
in view of the following "lines" which mention "patriotic bunting."    
You think these metaphorical lines (of history, of fate, of science  
and love triangles)  can be singled up?

Against the Day begins:
*****
“Now single up all the lines!”
“Cheerly now … handsomely … very well!”

“Prepare to cast her off!”

“Windy City, here we come!”

“Hurrah! Up we go!”

It was amid such lively exclamation that the hydrogen skyship  
Inconvenience, its gondola draped with patriotic bunting, carrying a  
five-lad crew belonging to that celebrated aeronautics club known as  
the Chums of Chance, ascended briskly into the morning, and soon  
caught the southerly wind.

****

Bekah