GRGR7 Summary of chapter 17

[Lars Frehse]

Hi everybody,


"(17) Back at the Hospital, during the most sinister time of the
evening, it is the paradoxical phase again, when weak stimuli get
strong responses. Always waiting for something terrible to happen.
Kevin Spectro calls out from an air thick with English ghosts; he is
dead from a rocketfall. Nothing can really stop the Abreaction of
the Lord of the Night unless the entire film runs backwards. The
reality is not reversible. Poisson, the Book, the psychics -- who
can really judge the Fall of Doom from above? Slothrop ought to
be on the Riviera by now, warm, fed, well-fucked, but his powers are
still dangerous. Pointsman sees a Nobel prize for understanding
the correspondence between the rocket-strike which destroyed the
ward where Slothrop had his excremental fantasy and some type of
deterministic cause-and-effect mechanism. Theseus will be forced to
defeat the Minotaur."

Taken from Dr. Daws " A Summary Of Gravity´s Rainbow."