tob 3/13 ~

tmn tob 3/13 Annihltn   my                   //notes noted on notepad :) on phone

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Annihilatn -- kindle note p6 tower
raised fr ground?
- a tower the base of which is set above ground ? - seems cld not be that bcs through open rectangular entrance, see stair that spiral *down*
- but if means only 8 inches ie half a foot above ground then clearly { cadence"clearly he cannot choose" wally shawn re poisoned cup in princess pride } clearly wld not call this a tower
and cld not have a rectangular entrance abv grnd     so wh is this descrip of, th I am not undsting ?
wait, opening line 'The tower, wh was not supposed to be there, •plunges•' into the ground..   so, it does only go downward!?  yet is understood as cylindrical bldg to be a tower
(makes sense LaValle in tob rvw calls it a tunnel, as I think may also be referred to here, but tunnels are not vertical w or without stairways.  Alice d n drop down a tunnel does she)  
still I see a problm w the rectangular entryway    ?

// next lines speak exactly to this except re entrance.  must be / maybe ? on hillside ~ slanted ground ~ I dunno.


p8
our bit of characterization:
- psychologist : leader, tries to express a rxn, ask others theirs
- biologist : our narrator ~obliges with a reply, tries to avoid mocking = ~ skeptical (critically-minded) but tries for harmony   *and I note she is not the relatively pure science seeming viewpnt: her observatns of the others, and statement th every living thing is subjctv, seem like wh wld assign to pych or anthr
- anthropologist : nods, as if agreeing w narr  /hmm.  a follower?
- surveyor : shrugs. char by narr as "would not reply."  unobliging.


p6: nothing  etched into  written  
on its surface
here p8: blank surface  "let us write"  "so many thing"
/of int poss thematic~ mentions of *writing*

also, again re qstn of '8 inches' raised above ground.  entrance ? = surface  ?

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