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

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/5/2012 12:35 PM, David Morris wrote:
> 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...

It's never much occurred to me, but imparting important information in 
terms of what a major character can't know or doesn't particularly care 
about seems slightly novel.   Or not, I don't know.

P
>
> 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. . . .