GRGR(8): Nuclear light

[Paul Mackin]

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

Reminds me, near the end of  _The English Patient_,  the Sikh sapper will "see"
the same "scrap of newspaper"--this time electronically over his portable
radio.

Causes a really abrupt shift in that book's outlook, reminiscent of the ending
of
Forster's _A Passage to India_   (to return to a nonnuclear setting).

The old East-is-East and West-is-West idea.

Was too-strong stuff to retain in the current-hit, romance-centered movie,
natch.

					P.