Harper Valley PTA Report

[Kathleen Fitzpatrick]

On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, David Casseres wrote (among other things):

>...And that fantasy reaches back to when he watched a child-rape
>scene in one of Thanatz' (meaning "death") Weimar-decadent movies.
> 
>And though the fantasy is never realized it haunts the whole desperate
>relationship, which is unresolved as we segue back to Slothrop falling in
>the river and then being hauled aboard the orgy-boat Anubis to find guess
>who, Bianca (meaning "white"!), who was the child star of that very same
>child-rape scene...

Not to pick nits here, but Bianca isn't the star of the movie Pokler
watches.  Greta is.  And it's Greta that's raped.  Bianca was *conceived*
during the filming of that scene, and Ilse was likewise conceived while
Pokler fantasized about the scene.

Kathleen