Slothrop the Savior?

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Chris surmises:
"   A-and, ohboyohboy, wait a minute--As I am not clear At All yet about  
     what the deal is re Prentice's message Rocket and the "incoming mail,"
     I hesitate (but only a little) to suggest that this is another
     pun--or, better, a bit of burlesque--on the birth of the Christ child,
     starring the message Rocket as the Star of Bethlehem, Prentice as the
     first Wise Man on the scene and our boy Incoming Male as the Savior
     Slothrop.  Oy, what a Savior...Rocketman Fool."


You have a point here.  The novel begins at the advent of Advent (culminating
in the wonderful passage where Roger and Jessica go to church--but more of 
that later), and of course Messianic delusions (or ambitions or what have you)
will proliferate in the Zone.

Does this mean Pointsman is Herod?

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)