Against the Day

[Mark Kohut]

First thought: pp149-155....Actually, p. 148 "speaking of the unfortunate
events to the north, the bad dream I still try to wake from, the great city
brought to ruin and sorrow.".......I hear an echo of Stephen Daedalus on
History: "The nightmare from which I am trying to awake". and, with the
unnamed great city
to the north, I think of Eliot's London or...as this chapter allows us, NYC
after 9/11?..."the great banks and trading houses in severe disarray"

 ..this chapter especially seems to me it could be a late insert into AtD,
no way to
even get circumstantial speculation on it, but......

Whatever, the echoes of the opening of GR, the fall of a Crystal Palace
section are all through here:    see p. 152, the "fire and blood" paragraph
which among other things echoes the no escape theme ..'there was no
refuge"...remember the line from GR? ...and the last paragraph on p.
153......

So, here in this later work, TRP sees History whole and says so?
Discuss.