GR translation: noise and change

[Mark Kohut]

We might remember that Lew Basnight in AtD, survives a blast and walks out
feeling 'grace'.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Gottfried is seeing himsellf as a hero character in a movie, where  " the
> hero always walks out of the heart of the explosion,…” .  So change is just
> a change of scene, either onward to the next amazing escape from death or
> to some other part of the plot. But no hidden or special meaning, just
> change.
>
> There is an interesting contrast P may be playing with here between his
> own( and movie maker’s)  use of explosions  as mythic portals, and  a more
> prosaic and grim view of death. He seems to be saying something like “wake
> up, Gottfried, you may be a side character in this novel, not the hero
> survivor.”
>
>
> > sooty-faced but grinning
> > On Jun 15, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > V102.30-38, P104.28-36   Gottfried styles himself a passive observer.
> > He has waited for his present age, and the conscription notice, to
> > catch him, with an impudent terror like watching the inrush of a curve
> > you mean to take for the first time in a controlled skid, take me,
> > gathering speed till the last possible moment, take me his
> > good-nights’ one prayer. The danger he thinks he needs is still
> > fictional for him: in what he flirts and teases with, death is not a
> > real outcome, the hero always walks out of the heart of the explosion,
> > sooty-faced but grinning—the blast is noise and change, and diving for
> > cover.
> >
> > What's the meaning of "change" in "noise and change"?
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