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SECTION 10: Chapters 26-28 [End of Part III]
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Did anyone else feel the quantity of explanation and exposition in this section was rather heavy-handed and rushed? (It put me in mind of a James Bond baddie, explaining his plans to Bond - i.e. the audience - just before he (tries to) kill him.)
I did. It reminded me of The Da Vinci Code. I loved all of the historical explication (which was "appropriated" from elsewhere), but suddenly it had to become an adventure novel/film and it all went downhill from there. But perhaps, this comes with the territory?
Hmmmm... I'm still chewing on what i think...My biggest problem may be with Bowden' motives and behaviour...
Does this thread include the ending? Let me check...
1. Ashil: "I'm an avatar of Breach."
2. Sear and Core had been doing R&D
3. ...the last throes, the nerve twitches of a little revolution that had died before it was born, and had not known it.
4. Breach lockdown
5. avoiding little anarchies
6. What a war, this now bloody war between those dedicated to bringing the cities together and the force charged with keeping them apart.
7. Mikhel Buric, the Social Democrat from the Chamber of Commerce, at Sear and Core
"What are True Citizens doing with a liberal sellout like you?"
What is this revealing about CM's politics?
8. "We're all patriots."
9. Ashil tries to arrest Buric
10. Shootout
Quentin Tarantino-style
11. "Breach...Freak show."
From fairy tale to freak show?
12. search for Bowden
13. "Bowden told you all along Orciny wasn't true."
14. Tyad
15. Bowden at Copula Hall between Besz and Ul Qoma, walking, not breaching, safe?
16. "He's been waiting for someone to notice him."
17. He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schroedinger's pedestrian.
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Verschränkung (entanglement)
18. He did not drift but strode with pathological neutrality away from the cities' centres...
19. We [Corwi and Borlu] "met each other's gaze a moment...It was really dawn at last.
20. He showed the thing to me, a moment, befoe gripping and aiming it again. It was some verdigrised metal object, age-gnarled and ugly. It was clicking. It was patched with new metal bands. "It broke. When I..." "Jesus, that's what you hit her with. When you realised she knew it was lies."
21. "I always told the truth. You heard me, Inspector. I told you many times. There's no such place as Orciny."
22. "...no one in this place, and that includes Breach, obeys the rules."
23. [Sear and Core] could have hired someone to smuggle more efficiently.
24. "It was because you missed Orciny. A way to have it both ways. Yes, sure you were wrong about Orciny, but you could make it so you were right, too...Orciny 2.0"
25. Mahalia died because she proved to Bowden that he had been a fool to believe the folktale he had created.
26. "When I called him Buric wasn't happy sending a driver, but he understood...We couldn't let Breach notice us." "But your maps are out of date." "When did they build that skate park?"
27. "It's over. Orciny's rubble."
28. "Which city are you in?" "Either." So I grabbed him by the scruff, turned him, marched him away. I dragged Breach with me, enveloped him in it, pulled him out of either town into neither, into the Breach.