MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Jason Tanz writes:
> May I also suggest that the title of the chapter "Counterforce" refers,
> not to the anti-They forces, but to the way the book dissolves the
> distinction between We and They at the end, as symbolized by Slothrop's
> dissolution.  The "force" of the title could refer to the ultimately empty
> organizational systems we use to define our lives.  And the novel?  What's
> more, the destruction of the reader on the last page
> suggests that we represent the "force" which is to be "countered," i.e.,
> our inability to get beyond paranoia as an organizing force. 

Which links us back to M&D where our eponumous polar opposites do not
oppose each other.


Andrew Dinn
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We drank the blood of our enemies.
The blood of our friends, we cherished.