IVIV (1) "She came along the alley and up the back steps ..."

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There's also the ball hanging in midair at the end of Chapter 1 of V., but I
think that starts to become a paranoid reading (not to mention a stretch,
since that doesn't happen until the END of that long chapter, and  what I've
just noticed--and please pardon me if this has been discussed before--has to
do with those Opening Moments). Really, this seems to start in GR.
I'd disagree about GR--yes, the "screaming" on the way does bring us back
from the end of the novel in that first sentence, and maybe it's a recursive
nightmare, could be going up, could be going down, could just be going
around and around... --but Pirate in that first "real" scene does view the
rocket contrail, and it's on the way up. And, yeah, he does go UP that
ladder.

Also of note, I think, is the alley/back steps connotations. Either way,
Shasta is approaching from the Underground, the side streets, eschewing the
conventional Front Door...


On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:54 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> WELL SURE, THE SNOWBALLS FLYTING their arcs [oops CAPS Lock] opening
> in M&D....
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