And just like that, we’re at the end of Part I…. Lots to like in this last stretch: The dual identities of Blinky Morgan. The Aetherists and their Asylum. That oily Zombini (“I don’t suppose you’d have a spare electrical coil around?” (68) — how could Merle not see trouble brewing?). “Skip” the ball of lightning, who seemed like a distant cousin to “Byron the Light Bulb” of Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i> fame.
\nA foul-mouthed Finn. A talking Tesla. An attack on the current administration even? (“Why, you could write a whole foreign phrase book just on what Republicans have to say.” (93)) A slice of Scarsdale Vibe’s past, the Traverse clan, and a rising extrasensory shimmer from Foley and Miles. All that, plus The Chums of Chance and their turn toward the Center, wherein Rodney and I get an excerpt from that Chums<\/i> novella we crave….
\nAlso: How creepy would it be to get sneered at by a guy named Darby Suckling?
\nAlso also: On page 112, a passage that could have been plucked from Gravity’s Grainbow<\/i> — the description of the rocket’s ascent, followed by Darby shouting “Stop, stop! …it sounds like Chinese!” — as if TP’s promising that we won’t be going back down that road this time around.
\nMy thanks to Steve E. for his summary notes in the comments. They’re a great condensed way to give us a quick-glance back over the last week’s reading. Steve, if you find the time, please keep ’em coming….. (and if anyone’s looking to review them, search “steve evans” on the W2 comments page.
\nTuesday 2\/20<\/b>: We’ll plant our dynamite sticks at the bottom of page 170, right next to “the purity, the geometry, the cold.”
\n(in other words: use this thread to comment through page 170. Try to finish reading that part of the book and to comment on it here by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nPugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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