BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Joseph Tracy]

  That was my first impression, conveys endurance like a pyramid, really a apile of sand similar to a house of glass already referenced. Also there is the similar connection to some pharoah-like power, some god-man that is the identity of those who serve. 
> On Apr 2, 2016, at 12:07 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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? 
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> On Apr 1, 2016, at 10:22 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> David Morris 
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>> 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.
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>> David Morris 
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>> On Friday, April 1, 2016, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On the way into ACHTUNG:
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>> "... 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?
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>> 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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