GRGR(14) the yarns he spun

[Michael Perez]

Neil wrote:
"He didn't make up everything. He made up the names and stories to
protect Katje who was pointing out the same spots on her map in
Holland. They were connected by the rocket before he ever fished her
out of the sea."

Well, Slothrop did say part of what he di was "insert fantasies." 
Perhaps he did not make it ALL up, but certainly it is suspect. 
Remember the discoveries, or lack of them, from SEZ WHO's Harvey Speed
and Floyd Perdoo (beginning at 270.13).  They couldn't find any of the
girls Slothrop starred on his map.  My own wild supposition is that
Slothrop might have just place stars on all the rocket sites he visited
and fabricated his liasons so that he and Tantivy would have something
to talk about.  After all, the snapshots of the map were taken after
the fact and Slothrop could have made up the dates.  However, wild that
idea may be (and unsupported by any direct textual reference), the idea
of the penis-as-rocket-magnet does fall a little flat after the above
two revelation within the text.  Then again, who knows who you can
believe.


David wrote:
"I think this is all connected to that "backward symmetry" mentioned in
this section:
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(301.24)  There was that backward symmetry again, one that Pointsman
missed, but Katje didn't.  'A life of its own,' she said."
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Weisenburger (rightly so, I think) sends us back to 209.23 where Katje
is talking about the rocket living a life from launch to explosion and
about her and Slothrop being on the opposite ends of the rainbow, each
with a perspective to which the other was not privy.  She was in on the
birth and infancy, Slothrop witnessed old age and disintegration.


Michael
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