STetc ch 37

[Michael Bailey]

The Chain Bridge - connects Buda and Pest

https://www.barcelo.com/guia-turismo/en/hungria/budapest/things-to-do/budapest-chain-bridge/



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"I still developed a strange rapport with the boat, you could almost call it a sort of psychical connectedness"
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Norman Mailer, in Of a Fire on the Moon, lavishly ruminated on "the psychology of machines"; Hauffnitz's rapport with U-13 sort of a data point for this notion?



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"Bruno is...handed a cigar compliments of the U-13." (Not only sentient, but hospitable)


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Clear as mud: Stuffy "clarifies", as to whose bright idea it was, commandeering Bruno -
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[whose bright idea was this?]
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"Somebody else, some cheese syndicate. Awhile ago they say you skipped...."

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But...
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"We're not working for them."
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"Who?"
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Shrug. "...Our racket happens to be exile."

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Perhaps it wouldn't be polite for Bruno to baldly ask who's paying for all this. Anyway, he doesn't, but instead posits a global scenario like a game of Risk or something, death squad subs contending with exile subs for a list of targets...

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Not quite in reply, Stuffy hands him a copy of the Chicago Tribune with all the bad milk news that's fit to print.


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Bruno, having already started thinking abstractly, now creates a subjunctive state of affairs, at least I think it's all in his head because it all seems to fit between sallies in his conversation with Stuffy?
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 "...[a list of potential allies] ignore Bruno's pleas...fail to return ship-to-shore phone calls" - can you even make ship-to-shore phone calls from a submarine? And would the U-13 allow such calls? One doubts it: Bruno's just painting a mental picture of "the Red Hour" and the fruitlessness of whatever countermeasures he can think of
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...until he finally accesses the power of speech enough to blame Roosevelt.