Love the writing and I'm anxiously looking forward to July 7th!
Anyone have any insight into the section that begins with the following:
"There is a head on a pole behind you.
Brutalities spin and scrape, like leaves blasted in the wind.
He is here ... with you ... not so much inside me as speaking with your voice.There is a head on a pole behind you."
Unless I'm completely misreading this I'm assuming this is written from Kellhus' point of view based upon his experience in the Outside.
"He comes to the shore that is here, always here, gazes without sight across waters that are fire, and sees the Sons swimming, lolling and bloated and bestial, raising babes as wineskins, and drinking deep their shrieks.
There is a head on a pole behind you.
And he sees that these things are meat, here. Love is meat. Hope is meat. Courage. Outrage. Anguish. All these things are meat—seared over fire, sucked clean of grease.
There is a head on a pole.
Taste, one of the Sons says to him. Drink.
It draws down its bladed fingers, and combs the babe apart, plucking him into his infinite strings, laying bare his every inside, so that it might lick his wrack and wretchedness like honey from hair. Consume ... And he sees them descending as locusts, the Sons, drawn by the lure of his meat.
There is a head ... and it cannot be moved."
Several times in this passage RSB uses the phrase "There is a head..." I've read through the section a couple times trying to glean the significance of this phrase or imagery but I'm coming up short. Anyone have any insight or speculation as to the significance of this phrase?