<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">And here's to Dave Monroe...<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">....and, this is my fourth or fifth read of this wonderful...thingy?....I lose track. I must say it's a pleasure and an honor to share it with you all! <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Let it RIP!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">One addendum; the famous pile on Slothrop's desk, and the resulting Plist, includes many allusions to future references in this masterpiece of a novel, and gives us several clues to the character of our"hero"...see for yourselves, or cheat, like I did, and refer to Weisenburger!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Keith Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbob42@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbob42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Â Â Â Â And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended), littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma". Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Â Â Â Â Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of Pirate Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet told, though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Â Â Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for ACHTUNG. What does it all mean? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Â Â And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.innergroovemusic.com" target="_blank">www.innergroovemusic.com</a><br><br></div></div>
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