Cutting Edge

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Good catch.


There are also two (quite paranoid) "leading edge" passages in GR  
which are worth mentioning IMO.


"Like other sorts of paranoia, it is nothing less than the onset, the  
leading edge, of the discovery that *everything is connected*,  
everything in the Creation, a secondary illumination - not yet  
blindingly One, but at least connected, and perhaps a route In for  
those like Tchitcherine who are held at the edge...." (Viking, 703)

    "'Surveillance?' Roger is fidgeting heavily, with his hair, his  
necktie, ears, nose, knuckles, 'IG Farben had Slothrop under  
surveillance? Before the War? What *for*, Gloaming.'
    'Odd, isn't it?' Cheerio *boing* out the door without another  
word, leaving Roger alone with a most disagreeable light beginning to  
grow, the leading edge of a revelation, blinding, crescent, at the  
periphery of his brain. IG Farben, eh?" (631)



Heikki


Quoting David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>:

>
> Not _The Bleeding Edge_, but from GR (Penguin Classic edition), page 581:
>
> "They kept the German Wobbly traditions, they didn't go along with   
> Hitler though all the other unions were falling into line. It   
> touches Slothrop's own Puritan hopes for the Word, the Word made   
> printer's ink, dwelling along with antibodies and iron-bound breath   
> in a good man's blood, though the World for him be always the World   
> on Monday, with its cold cutting edge, slicing away every poor   
> illusion of comfort the bourgeois takes for real..."
>