Re: GR translation: dithering between executioner’s silence and the Big Time

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for all your replies.  Appreciated.



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> YES!.....World-changing event Big Time......
>
>
>   On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:57 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  David, I did get a little carried away with my own exuberant rhetoric: I
> think your reading is quite reasonable - rather than Their vacillating back
> and forth as the Anubis heads toward inevitable notice (the Anubis affair
> could be a Man from UNCLE title, but Pynchon likes affairs, ie Fashoda,
> Novi Pazar...) it could as well be a moving-from executioner's silence
> toward some kind of public mayhem, so that we can picture Them as closing
> in and readying Their explanations to rationalize what is quite simply
> predation...
> And Mark, the Big Time novel you point to could serve as a thematic link
> between this GR passage and the time-travelers themes in both AtD and the
> poignant one in BE (well, the AtD ones are also quite poignant)
>
>
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