GRGR(4) Re: Help For Those Who Need It
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Thu Jun 17 11:44:37 CDT 1999
Anticipating the reply that TRP is only doing to us what They do to Pirate,
give him the appropriate stimulus, let him jerk off, get the word and do
what They want him to do. Is that all that TRP is doing in GR? Teasing us,
leading us on, then pulling the rug out from under our feet, laughing
because he's manipulated us into some predictable response?
At 9:36 AM -0700 6/17/99, Doug Millison wrote:
>Pirate's problem is not how to keep himself from searching out pornography.
>It comes to him, so to speak.
>
>On a related subject, anybody else think that TRP's reference to "tyrosine"
>on p. 71 might be a clue about how to read Slothrop's name, "Tyrone"?
>Tyrosine metamorphoses into melanin, rendering visible a previously
>invisible message, after application of "seminal fluid".
>
>Reminds me of the woman kidnapped by Indians in M&D, in the Captive's Tale:
>"They were her Express,-- she was their Message." p. 515
>
>So, application of "seminal fluid" to Tyrone reveals what message? He gets
>fucked and tells us what?
>
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