GRGR(8)

[hankhank at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

As I deleted all messages precipitately, I don't have Joe's questions on me. 
Could someone send them to me?

Now I'd like to suggest (maybe somebody did already) that Disgusting English 
Candy Drill as a whole may also be one of the novel's takes on the apocalypse,
which the "Fire of Paradise" may accentuate? Tragic, collective apocalypses
which threaten on the first and last pages are in this case comically reduced 
to a petty-bourgeois, domesticated, cosy-British form: explosions are internal 
and subjective. And, taking place in moist mucous membranes, rather feminine, 
too - maybe to be contrasted with the last paragraphs of the episode, where 
TS's erections and external exploding rockets seem connected, once again. 

Heikki