now, now everybody...

[Stuart Moulthrop]

This who-dies-in-GR string is *just* what I need this Tuesday morning
(sound track being that song by the Pogues).  Especially all this about
vegetative states.  My mood exactly.

Anyway, my personal addition to the list: "the long-time schiz, you know,
who believes that he _is_ World War II" (Viking 131), one of the shadow
inmates of The White Visitation.  "His days are numbered.  He's to die on
V-E Day.  If he's not in fact the War then he's its child-surrogate, living
high for a certain term but come the ceremonial day, look out.  The true
king dies only a mock-death.  Remember.  Any number of young men may be
selected to die in his place while the real king, foxy old bastard, goes
on."

A-and anyway, yesindeedyfoax, that terminal dash could spell you-know-what
for you-know-who (you).  So what's the point?  In GR, we're all dead in the
long run (at least in one construction of the final character...)

Stuart