MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[Brian D. McCary]

Greg writes:

"All of which casts Slothrop's "disintegration" into a new light, no?
Perhaps what was perceived by a number of readers as a tragic, downward
slide was actually an evolution towards a way of living without a need to
connect to conspiracies, but to life on its own terms..."

... an idea which is further supported by the trancendance of, shit, can't
remember right now, was it Lyle Bland, one of those industrialists anyways,
the pinball man, who joins the Masons and ends up more or less moving on,
spiritually.

Brian McCary