GRGR(3) 50.31 Love Pointsman Style

[rj]

> > He's cruising the bus station in order to pick up one or more of
> > Spectro's discharged patients who are still shell-shocked, right?

> > s~Z wrote:> 
> More specifically he's looking for the ones who have 'successfully'
> abreacted. They are in the middle stages of the brainwashing procedure.
> Tablets are erased. They are in a condition of powerlessness, fear, and
> childlike dependency. Their old behavior and attitudes are suppressed. 
> Now it is time to instill the new behavior and attitudes. Enter
> Pointsman. That these blank slates are actually 'palimpsests shivering
> under their government blankets' suggests that this isn't the first
> time. And since this brainwashing procedure requires players on both
> sides of the manifest war, who or what is the brainwasher? The Lord of
> the Night. He's active on all sides of the war. And they are His
> children.

But isn't Spectro's task to make them forget about the terror of the
blast. Why have they lost *all* their "old behaviour and attitudes"? I
don't get the impression that Spectro is churning out zombies. What I do
think is going on is that there are so many, the wards are so crowded,
that some are released prematurely still in a mindless daze and that
these are the ones Pointy is preying on at the bus station. Thus, his
poor strike rate. On the other hand, he *wants* Spectro to give him a
patient in the condition you describe, however, Spectro's ethics are
still somewhat intact. So, good old mindless blank slate Slothrop will
be the fox. Yes, "children" is definitely metaphoric.

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