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

[alice wellintown]

Good God, Roe, but you are the worst host we've had this read. I know
MB is a tough act to follow, but we gave you the best chapter in the
book and you ignore it while serving us witches and S&M is
colonialism, then quote passages, tell us they are important, cobble
together biographical rocks and stones...jesus...dig into the book in
front of you and quit with all this mindless un-pleasure.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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" -
>
>