V--2nd, Chap 9, after Robin's post with a short lead-off digression (for Robin)

[Robin Landseadel]

All sorts of references to "Mirror Time" in this chapter. Fasching in  
May.

And this, which strikes me a crucial:

	Van Wijk exploded in a bitter fit of laughing. "You seem," he finally
	drawled, "to be under certain delusions about the civil service.  
History,
	the proverb says, is made at night. The European civil servant normally
	sleeps at night. What waits in his IN basket to confront him at nine in
	the morning is history. He doesn't fight it, he tries to coexist with  
it.

	"Die lood van die Goevernement indeed. We are, perhaps, the lead
	weights of a fantastic clock, necessary to keep it in motion, to keep  
an
	ordered sense of history and time prevailing against chaos. Very well!
	Let a few of them melt. Let the clock tell false time for a while.  
But the
	weights will be reforged, and rehung, and if there doesn't happen to be
	one there in the shape or name of Willem van Wijk to make it run right
	again, so much the worse for me."

That's onpage 246 in the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.

On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Clément Lévy wrote:

> Very insightful BUT
> Mondaugen doesn't mean "world eye". "Der Mond" means "the Moon" in  
> German! Moon-eye!
> Clement
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
>
> so Moondoggie - well, no: Mondaugen, "world eye" -