Harper Valley PTA Report

[David Casseres]

>>...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.

Whoops.  Thanx for the correction, and of course it works better that way 
than the way I mis-recalled it.


Cheers,
David