Against the Day

[Chris Birks]

Counterfly = Barfly?

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chick Counterfly is the only human aboard The Inconvenience. Maybe 'inclined
> to
> sloth'. Another internal allusion: Slothrop? Real not fictional, therefore
> what? Us?
>
> His thematic earthiness is accented at the end of the first
> chapter---"persistently"
> bringing the ascending baloon down to earth---'another planet"......p.9
>
> And a bit later, another section ending, when he is asked if discussion of
> the force in the heavens which
> the Chums had experienced before he was aboard made him nervous....
> "thinkin' about that apple fritter there"......p. 20
>
> I think possible meanings to his name reveal themselves here......whatever
> the heavens and the flying
> of the Chums means, Chick at least starts opposite it.