Getting it

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Caldera Desktop User wrote:

> For those who have forgotten or never got it in the first place,a brief synopsis:
> 
> 
> Slothrop wants to get laid for free, like Benny Profane in V.,
> and other aimless types we could mention. His work with
> ACHTUNG has brought him into contact with many others
> with their own expense accounts and he dreams of being a big
> star foreign agent like Pirate Prentice. Knowing how paranoid
> the Firm is, if Pointsman is anything to go by, he need only
> leave something like a map of London lying around and their
> suspicions will be aroused. To this end . . . Next thing he is
> being well fucked and fed on the Riviera, travelling free 
> through the Zone, answerable to no one, getting to indulge his
> transvestism, having an extraordinary variety of sexual experi-
> ences, still perhaps ending with an honourable discharge . . . . 
> 
> McHoul and Wills, _Writing Pynchon_, p. 48.
> 
> 						P.
> 
> 
A-and another thing, another thing I never "got," or maybe forgot.  Are 
the women real?  Later, the two recon guys sent to investigate the map 
find that there are no women--at least, the ones mentioned on the map, 
and yet we've read of "real" incidents from Slothrop's account.  Forgive 
me, I'm reading through only for the second time and I can't recall how 
this is handled/resolved/answered (or if it is) later on.

Bonnie