V-2 - chapter 9 - Not Dark Yet

[Michael Bailey]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Robin Landseadel answered this
haunting question:

>> we don't ever find out whose blood, do we?

> In my copy, that's page 254. We see the blood on 249. Kurt meets Vera, right
> after seeing the blood, and then by virtue of not speaking of it, knows that
> he's already entered into a conspiracy with "V."

now, she isn't necessarily Victoria Wren, although she could be, maybe?


> congress, and Mondaugen is, in fact, raving.

so that Firelily he rode was while he was having Foppl's dreams?
Scurvy dreams, monsters under the bed?  So although there certainly
was a Sarah, it wasn't like little fish himself actually rode out
there and chained her up for that horrible outcome?
Man, this is confusing!


>        Mondaugen dashed along his own geodesic, following in the footsteps
> of a
>        generation of slaves. *

right on; they probably considered it light duty

> This is the moment he finds the dying Bondel:
>
>         " . . . As if the entire day had come into being only to prepare him
> for this . . ."
>
> This is the source of the blood we saw earlier in the day. Mondaugen's
> conspiracy is that of continuing the genocide, or at least of allowing it to
> continue.
>

Thanks, short stuff!  You just saved me a lot of investigative legwork!
(But what about Betty Jo Bialoski?)

> Foppl's partying like it's 1904. As the chapter progresses we are offered up
> -- via Mondaugen's fever dreams -- glimpses of what "1904" was really like,
> a portrait of the sort of person who might be good at this line of work,
> what their interests and hobbies might be.
>
> *see how this echos and chimes with Mason & Dixon and the Transit of Venus?
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>

yes indeed!


>        Well, I say that you will be on the road to
>        new horizons, for we who live in a society
>        where sex is a commodity and a politician
>        can become a TV personality, it’s not
>        easy to conform if you have any morality…
>        I said that myself many years ago…