Picturing Bianca

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Thu Mar 6 10:18:37 CST 1997


On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, RedBug wrote:

> As John Krafft pointed out to me a long time ago, Bianca is 16 or 17.
> Slothrop just *thinks* (*hopes*) she's 11 or 12.
>
> [textual evidence for the above snipped]

In light of this, all I can say is, "I stand corrected".

Is there anything in the text which pins down the age of Geli Tripping?
The only thing I can find is that she's "very young" (p 290).

Is Slothrop a pedophile or a pedophile-wannabe?

Joe





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