Back to AtD. The Compassionate, p. 973

[Mark Kohut]

"Persisting behind the world's every material utterance, the Compassionate now took steps to re-establish contact with Yashmeen."
Here is her earlier dream of them. 
P. 794. "We ascended, or rather, we were taken aloft, as if in mechanical rapture, to a great skyborne town and a small band of serious young people, dedicated to resisting death and tyranny, whom I understood at once to be the Compassionate."
 
And Ljublica talks naturally with the Russian Chums' dog. They're around. 
 
The Chums. Felt intuitively and named by Yashmeen, a voice of the author's vision/values, yes? Are they named that because they intercede
in bad scenes---like angels are supposed to or like God is implored to?  Any conceptual relation to Rilke's angels, anyone think? That they are
metaphysically 'fictional' yet can intercede in life, what's THAT all about?
 
Are they now around because the war has officially started? Otherwise, they seem late to the danger to yashmeen and Ljubica, yes?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20121230/64b245bf/attachment.html>