Borrowed Man writeup

Marc Aramini · 30 Sep 2018, 11:48 · from 2018-September.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 04:48:09 -0700
Subject: (urth) Borrowed Man writeup
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Also, roglich gives them a second book in a blue binding. It has equations.
Equations are mentioned as omitted on page 221 as a secret, where the
burning man imagery starts. There are multiple copies of that book of
equations, on the second shelf. I think that resonates with Arabella... but
why equations? It is also to the bookcase that Roglich speaks.
I think after 2001 Wolfe put more and more exposition in the embedded
symbols - they have been there before even Peace (Ben yahya- son of John
(were), Elia- olive: Olivia etc but now they are way harder to pin down.
I?m certain Grafton is represented by a pencil (graphite) in land across.
What the heck.
On Sunday, September 30, 2018, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> wrote:

> Great work Marc.
>
> Could it be relevant that time is not mentioned at all by Roglich, instead
> temperature differentials are introduced when space is displaced. Very
> weird. There must be some connection between Roglichs digression about
> space, the cold and hot polarity throughout the book and the plot. An
> indication that time is involved is maybe that the dates don't fit.
>
> The jungle world I found very inhospitable and constricted and not a place
> to spend time. Could it not be a place like Father Inure's garden? When
> people are going in and out of the jungle-room temporal changes may be
> involved like coming back before you entered. Then there is the river - or
> brook? - of time in Urth of the New Sun.
>
> I believe you also mentioned an interpretation like the one of * Point
> Blank* (neo noir 1967) interpretation. Some critics said the whole movie
> was a revenge fantasy of the dying man (Lee Marvin) shot at the beginning.
> According to Wiki: "Some critics consider *Point Blank*, "a haunted,
> dream-like film that draws upon the spatial and temporal experiments of
> modernist European art cinema",[16]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_%281967_film%29#cite_note-16>
> especially the "time-fractured" films of French director Alain Resnais
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Resnais>.[17]"
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_%281967_film%29#cite_note-17>
>
> The names bother me as well: all those Co..'s and the fact that Payne and
> Fish are not mentioned in the list. Why not? Are they two known characters
> in disguise?
>
> I found Camestros Felapton's remarks interesting as a partial list of
> Wolfean tropes stretching back to Cerberus and not only characterizing his
> later work.
>
> Op 29-9-2018 om 21:27 schreef Marc Aramini:
>
> Here is my writeup on A borrowed man - two to go (land across, evil
> guest).
>
> https://pastebin.com/3Ph363VX
>
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