GOD MODE--potential spoilers--Greg Egan--Walter Kirn

[Keith Brecher]

At 11:04 AM 5/20/97 -0400, jporter wrote:
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I hope you have a sense of humor,
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Well, I have a sense of humor, Jody, damaged as it may be, and while I'm
thrilled to acknowledge that TRP does too, I still can't agree with you
that the so-called humorous parts of M&D are vehicles for some of his most
solemn and serious ideas. I would be very interested in your revelation of
the solemn and serious ideas behind the Octuple Gloucester. And, while
you're at it, how about those giant vegetables? Woody Allen did that bit
better in SLEEPER....
  Incidentally, it seems you're doing some serious muscle flexing yourself
here. The allusions fairly snap, crackle, and pop off the screen and, while
I'm not saying your post is quite the same thing as listening to a bowl of
cereal, nevertheless it takes considerably more work to digest. You reach
some kind of high point of Amok-style poetry, for lack of a better word, in
the part about transubstantiation, sow's ears, and the cloven hands of
priests, but I'll have to think some more about what it actually means
after I figure out just what the hell Drasp and Lepton worked out.
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Still Fetal After Your Stinging Criticisms (Witticisms?),
Keith>
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