GRGR(8): Nuclear light

[Craig Clark]

Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com> writes:

>> -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.

Let's not forget Ballard's _Empire of the Sun_, where Jim sees the 
flash on the horizon in a deeply powerful climax - badly handled, 
IMHO, in the Spielberg film (as was much else that was good in the 
novel).

Craig Clark

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