Tresy Kilbourne
tresyk at halcyon.com
Fri Sep 20 11:17:13 CDT 1996
>all the thoughts
>running through a man's head between the impact of a rocket and the sound
>of it's arrival." You bet. Is this a commonly held view?
I never read the quote, but I think one perfectly valid interpretation is
that the entire book takes place in a "dt," an eyeblink in time. Whether
that dt is in a man's mind, I don't know.
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Tresy Kilbourne, Seattle WA
"Welfare moms should take a leaf from struggling single mother Sherry
Rowlands. They should become dominatrixes. Here is a lucrative profession
with flexible hours that combine well with child-rearing, which, indeed,
it resembles in many ways." -- Katha Pollitt
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