BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

 > Who are the curious (and is that 'peculiar' or 'inquisitive'?) 
gods... let alone their offspring? <

Could imagine that this refers to the gods of war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_deities

Their "offspring" then might be the /archetypic/ (perhaps "pyramids" 
shall indicate this) dynamics the war deities evoke in the peoples.

Like James Hillman analyzed it in his last book "A Terrible Love of War".

The agent of this book was --- Melanie Jackson.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-011-3


On 02.04.2016 03:58, Monte Davis 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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