GR translation: pacts sworn to in rooms...

[Michael Bailey]

...rooms in which the planning took place are...

now torn apart by (bomb)shells so that all that is left is
a) with the ceiling torn off a hypothetical aerial observer would see
the floor plan just as it appeared on the blueprint
b) or maybe, completely gone so that those who think of it at all
would be those charged with rebuilding, and what they would be looking
at is plans for it?
c) or, shelled, like a peanut or a crab leg?  (shell being removed)
d) there is at least one similar description of destroyed buildings in
_V._ in the Paolo Maijstral's Confession chapter

"not quite by accident of war"

Slothrop's being paranoid and romanticizing: sure there are suspicious
accidents like US bombing of Chinese embassy in 1999 or gunning down
of reporters in Iraq - but
a) do we really think that Pointsman et al required oaths while they
were planning mind games on Slothrop
b) the planning would've taken place in London or thereabouts,
wouldn't it?  a-and that would mean the *German* bombardment would've
had to be targeting those buildings for erasure...or somebody would
have to be messing with the Poisson distribution (which is what they
suspect *Tyrone* of!)

Mike Jing wrote:
> P190.23-31   So it is here, grouped on the beach with strangers, that
> voices begin to take on a touch of metal, each word a hard-edged clap,
> and the light, though as bright as before, is less able to illuminate
> . . . it’s a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders
> behind the visible, also known as paranoia, filtering in. Pale lines
> of force whir in the sea air . . . pacts sworn to in rooms since
> shelled back to their plan views, not quite by accident of war,
> suggest themselves. Oh, that was no “found” crab, Ace—no random
> octopus or girl, uh-uh. Structure and detail come later, but the
> conniving around him now he feels instantly, in his heart.
>
> "pacts sworn to in rooms since shelled back to their plan views, not
> quite by accident of war, suggest themselves."
>
> What is this about?