BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[David Morris]

Too fragmentary for any deep diving, unless linked to other parts of the
text. The spiritual references are playing against what Bloat can't feel at
all, so the narrator is feeling the aura in his stead, which would then
include pyramids, etc.

David Morris

On Friday, April 1, 2016, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the way into ACHTUNG:
>
> "... a certain  desperate aura here. But Bloat, going in the sandbagged
> entrance (provisional pyramids erected to gratify curious gods’ offspring
> indeed), can’t feel a bit of it..."
>
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> http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/men-resting-on-top-of-piles-of-sandbags-wwii-london-4-september-1939-picture-id102729664
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> Help me out with that parenthetical description. "Provisional," sure --
> these aren't for the ages, just for the V-weapon Blitz 2.0. But what's
> Egyptian about it? Who are the curious (and is that 'peculiar' or
> 'inquisitive'?) gods... let alone their offspring? What desire is being
> gratified? And why that "indeed," as if this were reinforcement or
> confirmation of something stated or questioned earlier?
>
>
> I get an echo of p. 9, where the men crushing ice against the concrete
> Jungfrau were "wasted gods urging on a tardy glacier." But it's a faint
> echo, and doesn't help me understand this.
>
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