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For what it's worth (and I may have missed a post already mentioning this), I
believe there's a spot in the text where the line comes up again, and it does
have the doubled "to" in it. Unfortunately, I'm a few thousand miles away from
my copies of _Dhalgren_ at the moment, so I can't give an exact citation.
Quoting Erich Schneider <[email protected]>:
> "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Two out of three: the double "to" is discussed in ... hell, I _think_
>> it's the introduction to the Gregg edition, not sure. At any rate,
>> yes, it's very valid and not an insignificant achievement to recognize
>> it without prompting. (I came within an inch and missed; I noted the
>> double "to" and concluded that it was a clue that the book wasn't
>> "really" circular. Spiral, I thought, and evolved a complex double-helical
>> model that involved one of the women Kid meets coming into and
>> going out of Bellona going through a set of experiences that mirrors
>> (prisms? lenses?) Kidd's in the course of the novel. All wasted, since
>> "come to" is much more elegant and clearly correct.
>
> Certainly not wasted or "incorrect" in my mind. And the image of a
> spiral instead of a circle works well with the view of "living inside
> a text" as it is an analogy to the act of rereading - when you
> reread, you don't have the same experience as when you first read, so
> you're not simply repeating what went before.
>
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