Sex and the Single Bomb

[Penny Padgett]

Hi all,

Don Larsson quotes Bonnie:

>> "The point is that there is nothing seductive about an ICBM, nothing 
>> sexy about thermonuclear weapons ... "

and then goes on to remark:

> ... TRP himself uses the imagery (sometimes straightforwardly,
> sometimes ironically) as in the ref. in GR to Col Tibbets "tickling the 
> clit of Miss Enola Gay" (which was named for Tibbets' mother--I don't 
> *think* TRP knew that and wonder what it means if he did!).  And then 
> there's the whole phallic rocket business that is so central to Blicero 
> and Gottfried, if not Enzian.

Indeed. Not to mention all those feelthy limericks about Doing It with
the rocket or component hardware.

"There was a young fellow named Ritter/Who slept with a guidance
transmitter ..."  u.s.w. 

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