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[Ian Livingston]

The descriptive features of paragraphs 2 & 3 feature the decay of the
industrial age suddenly become immediate, terminal. How much of this is
action and how much is mere motion? And what of feeling? Darkness? The
lines finding no escape, “but a progressive knotting into,“ GR 4. “Knotting
into“ what? the zero-point?



“The caravan has halted. It is the end of the line,“ (4).



“I caught sight of a large building, a manor house of grand proportions….

[…]

“Just as we reached the middle of the courtyard, in front of the main
entrance, something unexpected happened: with a dull clang, both gates flew
shut. The peasant leaped down from his seat and exclaimed, ‘Now we are
caught in the seventeenth century.‘  Resignedly, I thought, ‘Well, that’s
that! Now we shall be caught for years.‘ Then the consoling thought came to
me: ‘Someday, years from now, I shall get out again.‘“ Jung, MDR, 204
(1965).
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