BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[David Morris]

I would say that this narrator's insights re. pyramids and gods are meant
to be prompts for the reader's own thoughts, a way of getting buy-in to the
proposed paranoia. The reader is being overtly recruited into a paranoia.

David Morris

On Friday, April 1, 2016, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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..."
>>
>>
>>
>> http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/men-resting-on-top-of-piles-of-sandbags-wwii-london-4-september-1939-picture-id102729664
>>
>>
>> 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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