Chick Counterfly rose indolently and approached the lurching pair with some caution, unsure of which part of Miles to take hold of, let it but increase his agitation.
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This scene has been going on for so many lines that it must have greater subtext than just a slapstick break from the seriousness of the boy's adventure story line! Maybe the entire scene is a metaphor for just how difficult it is to manage an airship with Miles as the airship trying to be kept in control? So up until now, it's been smooth sailing and everything seems easy in the life of these boys. But now we see just how dangerous and difficult it is! Trying to keep an airship from falling out of the sky is like trying to wrangle a ticklish fat kid out of a knotted bunch of hemp rope as you're being blasted in the face by escaping gusts of hydrogen gas! It's sort of both literal and figurative!
Plus Chick is lazy just like we all expected was the case. Or knew because we'd been told that multiple times by now. It's hard to remember when you spend a full month reading just the first 120 lines of a book. Imagine if I had done this with Gravity's Rainbow on my second reading? I'd probably quit after having to analyze that moment Brigadier Pudding sucks the turd out of Katje's butthole.
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