"This is magic. Sure—but not necessarily fantasy. Certainly not the first time a man has passed his brother by, at the edge of the evening. often forever, without knowing it." (735) Enzian and Tchitcherine meeting without resolving their plot tension.
Double Meaning of Preterite: Passed over as left behind and passed over as not chosen for punishment.
"Passed over. / "We thought of this as an industrial process. It was more. We passed over the coal-tars. A thousand different molecules waiting in the preterite dung. This is the sign of revealing. Of unfolding. This is one meaning of mauve, the first new color on Earth" (167)
"have we been passed over, or have we been chose for something even more terrible" (328)
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