AtD translation: invested in, invested by

[Mark Kohut]

I needed this today, he says mysteriously and I looked up the exact quote
of something from AtD I can't forget:

page 19. with the balloon boys:
...."proceeding as if under a worldwide, never ending state of siege"

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 3:39 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> P452.6-12   The conferees had gathered here from all around the world,
> Russian nihilists with peculiar notions about the laws of history and
> reversible processes, Indian swamis concerned with the effect of time
> travel on the laws of Karma, Sicilians with equal apprehensions for the
> principle of vendetta, American tinkers like Merle with specific
> electromechanical questions to clear up. Their spirits all one way or
> another invested in, invested by, the siegecraft of Time and its mysteries.
> -------------------------
>
> Here's my take on this passage:
> 1.  All of the conferees are "invested in, invested by, the siegecraft of
> Time and its mysteries."
> 2.  All are, then, at battle with Time (capital T).
> 3.  That they are "invested by" that siegecraft implies that they are less
> than autonomous in that battle.  "Time and all its mysteries" has
> "captivated" them.  So, in essence, Time has agency, and the upper hand
> against all those that siege against it.
>
> David Morris
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