GRGR: Gottfried and NASA's spam-in-a-can

The Magnet World of Alex Chiu quino.phec at virgin.net
Tue Jun 22 16:44:42 CDT 1999


Millison:

> It's jumping the gun a bit, but thinking about the possibility that TRP
> shifts 60s' views of psychologists/psychiatrists back into GR's WWII
> setting, led to thinking that the effort to launch Gottfried might
> represent some sort of comment on a major, ongoing 60s media event, the
> Mercury then Apollo manned space programs.

By the by, Gottfried, being the small chap he is, may also be an allusion to
Little Boy; was Blicero a Fat Man? I don't recall. Anyway, gristle for those
atom bomb/cold war millers. Or maybe just kute koincidence - are they allowed?
If this is in Weisenberger, apologies, I don't have it.

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