From: Joe MorrisSubject: [PKD] TTOTA: Ch 13-14 To: pkd@jazzflavor.com (pkd) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:50:03 -0400 (EDT) Tim takes Angel out to dinner and tries to coerce her into going to Isreal with him. She begs off in respect to her current responsibilities in Berkeley and we see again how Tim is never *in* the moment -- his mind is always roaming to the next insight/argument/plan/mind-game. He leaves and, of course, dies in the desert with his gas station map and two sodas. Taking us to the present and Angel's crushed soul. Chapter 12 fades back to Barefoot's boat where Bill has been in the back of the room. Bill isn't merely a bodhisattva, but Tim's soul returned to life. The book is wrapping up! I do love the way PKD framed the story like an actual memior where Angel always tosses out big spoilers and the rough outline of the tale is visible from the start similar Shakespeare's tragedies -- thus it's not the plot per se that comes to the front, but what it does to the characters. -- Joe Morris, SysAdmin and Not Insane Atlanta stories: http://jolomo.net joe@jolomo.net