GR translation: For all Slothrop knows he's an agronomist

[David Morris]

Your point isn't too obvious because these observations can seem to be
coming from S.  The last observation about both Dodson-Truck' and
Katje's  "well-informed zeal an unmistakable aura of the employee and
loser. . ."  must also be coming from a third party...

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> It may be too obvious to note (but I'll do it anyway) that, apart from the
> strangeness of the stopwatch and notetaking, Slothrop himself--as far as we
> are told--doesn't have a thought in the world about any of it?  The
> paragraph is 90 percent about what S would NOT be able to fathom about Sir
> Stephen, even if he were to try.
>
> P
>>
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>> P214.8-21  During the lessons he will often look over and catch Sir Stephen
>> Dodson-Truck consulting a stopwatch and taking notes. Jeepers.
>> He wonders what that's all about. Never occurs to him it might have to do
>> with these mysterious erections. The man's personality was chosen- or
>> designed-to sidetrack suspicions before they have a chance to gather speed.
>> Winter sunlight hitting half his face like a migraine, trouser cuffs out of
>> press, wet and sandy because he's up every morning at six to walk along the
>> strand, Sir Stephen makes perfectly accessible his disguise, if not his
>> function in the conspiracy. For all Slothrop knows he's an agronomist, a
>> brain surgeon, a concert oboist-in that London you saw all levels of command
>> seething with these multidimensional geniuses. But as with Katje, there
>> hangs about Dodson-Truck's well-informed zeal an unmistakable aura of the
>> employee and loser. . . .