GRGR(11) - PFP#2

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 6 13:17:46 CDT 1999


Oops!  Boy, did I screw THAT one up!

But it made more sense to me the wrong way.  Maybe Pynchon screwed it up :)

>From: Murthy Yenamandra
>
>David Morris rephrases:
> > ----------
> > (241.23) Proverbs for Paranoids, 2:  The innocence of the creatures is 
>in
> > inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
> > [...]
> > Thus PFP#2 could be rephrased:
> > "The more innocent the creature being controlled, the more immoral the
> > Master."  Slothrop was controlled as an infant, all innocence...
>
>But the proportion is inverse - so it should say:
>
>"The more immoral the Master, the less innocent the creatures."
>
>Murthy

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