Back to AtD. Echo aforehand

[Matthew Cissell]

A sense of heavy foreboding builds towards the end of the book and the horror of WWI is passed over in near silence to let the greater horror of WWII lay just beyond the book's time and space. This leaves the reader to think of what waits ahead for the cast of characters but also what the near future may bring to those of us reading in the here and now that looks evermore like Desolation Row.

mc
ps. thanks to those who have offered suggestions about the map idea.

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Back to AtD. Echo aforehand

p. 936..... a 'cross-hatched map' with 'certain disagreeable events attributed to Germany' including
'probably' the placement of 'land mines'........

alludes to GR, of course, this time with a foretelling the near future aspect--as much of AtD does.