BtZ42 Roger, Over & Out?

[Monte Davis]

I can see it as a smart-ass young man's passing thought as he drives up: "I
bet this is the most excitement those grannies have had all year... they
get to ooh and ahh over the brave strong young firemen -- and, heh-heh,
their big Hoses..."

Equally well as the narrator murmuring over Roger's shoulder. With the
usual TRP sparseness of signage free-indirecting us "inside" or "outside,"
there's not much to choose between the readings.

There's so much of that throughout the book (cf. V683, with Saure as cat
burglar arousing Minne's ambivalent alarm) that IMHO it would be overkill
to bring Pirate into it, absent anything about this situation of special
interest to SOE or the Firm.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> p. 41 Who is having the fantasy about the old ladies and the firemen?
>
> At quick blush, it seems to be a continuation of Roger.....but then it is
> italicized so maybe not......seems like it is the narrator but.....
>
> Pirate and Roger have been emotionally, situationally (as well as by their
> work)  linked by Roger
> so is this---and are some others?--fantasy one of Pirates, who we are told
> has such?
>
> Never told that about Roger.
>
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