GRGR(10?) - Commando Raid

Jeremy Osner jeremy at xyris.com
Tue Nov 2 20:06:22 CST 1999


I don't think we did -- though I remember thinking at the time it was worthy of
some discussion.

RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com wrote:

> greetings,
>
> does anyone recall whether or not we discussed the reality / unreality of
> Slothrop's commando raid on Shell Mex house on pp251-2 (the depiction of which
> as a labyrinth, albeit one lacking the minotaur, seems to make it a dream - yet
> there is no textual indication that it is such)?
>
> --rwilson
>
> "perhaps my brains have turned to sand" -- eno

--
We seek sex, and are left with two private bodies on a stained bed.
The larger erotic dream, the god, has eluded us. It is so whenever,
moving out of ourselves, we look for extensions of ourselves.

V. S. Naipaul
_The Mimic Men_





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