TRP Themes

Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt hag at iafrica.com
Sat Mar 2 12:39:17 CST 1996


john m writes:
> (can't quote; no text before me) that she feels the bullet whizz by her head and , an 
> instant later, hears the report of the rifle shot.  Just like them old V-2s!!! It's our 
> first encounter w/ the hysteron proteron that marks the central fact of GR.  Causes 
> and effects reversible in this strangely warped fictional space.   It seems a little 
> thread thrown forward into the world about to emerge in GR.

...and then there's Yotodyne president Clayton 'Bloody' Chiclitz (57, GR-558) 
and the sixty foot rockets forming the gate to Yoyodyne, with 
"Yoyodyne" on each nose cone (15) and the road which is like a 
hypodermic needle feeding the city and keeping it safe from pain 
(that "mainliner LA", 16), which hints at a certain dilemma,  "... a 
dilemma built into nature, much like the Heisenberg situation. There 
is nearly complete parallelism between analgesia and addiction" (GR, 348), 
and, and...

hg
hag at iafrica.com



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