IVIV (1) Shasta

[John Bailey]

And SPOILER ALERT when Doc finally makes it onto the water, where
folks of the quadrilateral sort are (disturbingly) singing along to
Thunderclap Newman's revolutionary anthem "Something in the Air", he
looks back at his world, his rolling beach and the constantly-referred
to gradients of Gordita's hills, and realises that his world, from out
here, is FLAT.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:46 PM, David Payne<dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 (13:35:10 -0700), Mark Kohut (markekohut at yahoo.com)
> wrote:
>
>> Flatland gear = straightworld clothing.....see gloss....she's, at most
>> now, a line........not a positive in P's world here and elsewhere........
>
> Contrast: Flatland ... straightworld ... came on the surface streets and in
> through the alley (and remember that Mt. Shasta is home to peoples whose
> civilization was flattened)
>
> with: The light shining down through Doc's window ... and SPOILER ALERT the
> end where Doc, not on the surface streets seems to almost be flying above
> the world like the Chums
>
> Don't ignore the connection to the novel "Flatland." I've only skimmed a few
> pages, but it has two dimensional characters (literally two dimensions as in
> cannot look down upon anything) who are unable to percieve reality, who lock
> people in asylums for the pointless endeveor of trying to locate the source
> of light in the world...
>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 (14:43:23 -0500) Dave Monroe
> (against.the.dave at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> "Tonight she was all in flatland gear"
>>
>> As in straight? Square? Cf. ...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
>
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