Marvy errata

[Aaron Yeater]

oops, in the second to last line, i meant "inability to control all"

> I always figured the ole' boy's castration was not a come-uppance, as 
> such, but a moment of comic incompetence by "them"--it's an old 
> set-up, the switcheroo-- "Prince and the Pauper,", for one-- the old Danny Kaye 
> movie in which the clown  'becomes' a French general, for 
> another--most notably, Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"--in 
> which the fool (or schlemiel, as might be apropos to Slothrop) is 
> mistaken for an authority figure.  Here, the authorities mistake a 
> fool of their making (Marvy) for one they don't control (Slothrop) 
> and Slothrop escapes, protected by the conspiracy's ability to 
> control it all.  It is, in that sense, a humanizing moment...
> 
> my $.02...
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> -ay-
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