Pavlov and the Book

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Sun Nov 3 15:50:53 CST 1996


Tom Stanton says:

Thinking back over the past 4 sections I noticed an intersting pattern
regarding human behavior: fantasy (Pirate), paranoia (Slothrop), mysti-
cism (Jessica), "love" (Mexico), and ,now, behavioralism (Pointsman).
If indeed Pirate has Slothrop fantasies, it appears Roger/Jess are
having
Pirate's fantasies. Slothrop's busy love life is the inverse of Pirate's
lack of any love. What ties it together? Death (mysticism) and science
(behavioralism). Nice set up..

Good observations and speaking of Jessica's fantasies and mysticism, what
about all the strange stuff in the closing paragraphs of the section starting 
middle of p. 58 with Mind-to-mind . . .

Jess seems in contact with a number of minds in addition to Roger's.			

				P.



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