At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate
mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal
sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator,
reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.
Reading these two books in
sequence, I came across a passage in Charles Glenn's foreword to class Between Memory and Vision that threw a sharp and revealing light on the subtle and often
mind - numbing distinctions elaborated in Does God Belong in Public Schools Glenn writes: «The effect of Supreme Court decisions over the past forty years was to treat religion as the only forbidden motivation for school choice.»
Reading Revolutionaries goes further than other publications of yours that I've seen in magnifying the work, but also in firmly controlling the order in which someone «
reads» — the word «scans» also comes to
mind — its
sequence of details from the work.