BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Jochen Stremmel]

all I can come up with is this morsel from a Google search:

Arus stood in a vast corridor, lighted by huge candles in niches along the
walls. These walls were hung with black velvet tapestries, and between the
tapestries hung shields and crossed weapons of fantastic make. Here and
there, too, stood figures of curious gods—images carved of stone or rare
wood, or cast of bronze, iron or silver—mirrored in the gleaming black
mahogany floor.
from The Conan Saga, obviously published in September 1952, here certainly
meaning "peculiar", like in any other possible context, I presume, until P
came along and turned it around, the indeed being the clue ...?

2016-04-02 6:07 GMT+02:00 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:

> How about that the sandbags, stacked up like pyramids, give the illusion
> of protection, enough to satisfy the folks inside, stupid humans, descended
> from gods, who would accept the comfort of this alleged protection, putting
> out of mind that any bomb could fall on them at any moment?
>
> Www.innergroovemusic.com <http://www.innergroovemusic.com>
>
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 10:22 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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> 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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