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okay...we've shot up, shot down, had a shoot out, and shot our
wads...while continuing to shoot thusly let us prime the pump for
Episode 12 with another Larry Daw summary, easily accessed at Tim Ware's
never-can-be-plugged-too-frequently site:

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/gravity-f.html


(12) "They" are not through with Slothrop yet. At "The White
     Visitation," the walls read ice, darkening the blood brick
     and terra cotta as if the house is to be preserved inside
     some skin of clear museum plastic, an architectural
     document, an old-fashioned apparatus whose use is
     forgotten. The scheme is called Operation Black Wing and
     involves the Schwarzkommando. The doctors get to watch
     more abreactions during these heavy days of
     V-bombardment than those of an earlier day were apt to
     see in several lifetimes. Old Brigadier Ernest Pudding is
     re-enlisted for psychic research. Brought up to believe in a
     literal Chain of Command, as clergymen of earlier
     centuries believed in the Chain of Being, the newer
     geometries confuse him. His greatest triumph, after all,
     had been losing only 70% of his regiment to win 40 yards
     of Armageddonite filth in the Ypres salient. In "The White
     Visitation," different versions of Homo Monstrosus --
     cyclops, humanoid giraffe, centaur -- are repeated in all
     directions. A few token lunatics, an enormous pack of
     stolen dogs, cliques of spiritualists, vaudeville entertainers,
     wireless technicians, Coueists, Ouspenkians, Skinnerites,
     lobotomy enthusiasts, and Dale Carnegie zealots are
     amassed to give Slothrop his fateful "projective test."