GRGR(4)Question about Slothrop going under

[Tom Hickey]

It does read like a news brief or press release.  The "An invaluable extra
dimension" after "racial problems in his own country" on pg.75 sounds cute
and ironic.

It's true that PISCES has been interested in Slothrop for other reasons so
this may just be killing two birds with one stone: getting inside Slothrop's
head and collecting information for Black Wing.

And there's nothing, I suppose, to say that they aren't also working with
Germans, etc.

I always took it to mean that the scale and complexity of America's race
issues make it an important model to study, a perfect site to milk the fear
from and analyze.

Slothrop's head is a crowded place and analyzing what's going on in there
may serve a number of their purposes.


Jeremy Osner:
>
> I don't quite get why interviewing an American soldier is the best way of
> understanding German people's race fears. Surely there was the odd German
> available? If nothing else, a POW?
>

David Morris:
>
> Well, yes & no.  The quote above is written almost as a news brief, or
maybe
> the story they fed Slothrop to get him to agree to go under.  PISCES has
> been interested in Slothrop for a long time for OTHER reasons.  They want
to
> know what makes him tick.  Race relations fears may be a part of his
> "mechanism," or maybe not.  They are definitely a major part of GR.
>