GRGR(14) the yarns he spun

[David Morris]

>From: Michael Perez 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.

It does go flat... Goddammit! Where's that Viagra!
I think it matters little whether the encounters are real or fantasy.

>
>David wrote:
>"I think this is all connected to that "backward symmetry" mentioned in
>this section:
>---------
>(301.24)  There was that backward symmetry again, one that Pointsman
>missed, but Katje didn't.  'A life of its own,' she said."
>---------
>
>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.
>

But there are other ends to this rainbow too.  They are Victim and 
Victimizer, yadda, yadda, you know the rest.  I think an implied emphasis 
here is Living V. Not.  Does "inert" matter have life?  The Zero point of 
Brenschluss (sp?) is reached via a dance w/ the consciousness of the 
rocket's brain.  When it cuts off the fuel it is completely on its own...  I 
think what makes "backward symmetry interesting is the implication of 
two-way causality.  Who is really in control?

David Morris

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