Esther's rhinoplasty

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In a message dated 96-06-22 15:10:10 EDT, Paul Murphy writes:

>I don't think so ... like (arguably) everyone else in the Whole Sick 
>Crew, whatever transformative/redemptive energy or impetus she may once 
>have had has dissipated, become inert, inanimate (?), well before the 
>novel's chronology opens.

Good point.  In other words, the Whole Sick Crew is an organism exhibiting
signs of entropy.  And the problem with entropy is that when it happens to a
person its a move in the direction of the inanimate (and towards the side of
the Bad Guys/Them).  Please excuse me if I am misapplying the actual
scientific notion of entropy, I don;t know if it can properly be applied to a
living organism.

Ron Churgin