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[rj]

Jeremy and Mark are quite right re the Pointer:
> 
> --- Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com> wrote: (sniplet)
> "....the state of war is about to be abridged and
> > reconstituted as a peace, and what has he gotten out of it?]" Which
> > certainly makes it seem to me like the fellow under discussion
> (Pointsman)  has
> > been
> > in
> > the war effort with an eye toward personal gain.
> >
> 
> Or becomes conscious of the lost opportunity....

(75.22) And only now begins to apply his scientific methodology and
behaviourist insights in the real world in order to manipulate Pudding
for funds and wrest control from him so's he can launch his full-scale
"ultraparadoxical phase" experiment on Slothrop and, like a good
disciple, finish off The Bible according to Pavlov; for Pavlov "died at
the very threshold of putting these things on an experimental
basis."(90.29)

Pointy's a pure scientist, a zealot; self-perceiving a higher, more
noble calling and purpose than merely 'winning' the war. War, peace:
it's all just a petrie dish as far he's concerned.

best