BtZ42, p.17: sandbagged

[Jochen Stremmel]

I'm with John here: as Egyptian pyramids are for the dead mostly mentioning
gods seems to imply rather Mesoamerican pyramids.

2016-04-02 17:48 GMT+02:00 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:

>   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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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