GRGR(8): Nuclear light

[Craig Clark]

Monte Davis signs himself as  

> -Monte <who thinks that scrap of newspaper Slothrop will see in August is among 
> the hinges of GR>  

Absolutely. On the subject of McGuffins, I've often suspected that 
the quest for the 00000 rocket in _GR_ is something of a quest for a 
McGuffin, because the novel is _really_ about the events in that 
scrap of newspaper. The rocket is merely a means towards an end: in 
the novel as much as in Their plans to bring everything to Absolute 
Zero...



Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"