GRGR(11) - PFP#2

[Murthy Yenamandra]

David Morris writes:
> I was trying to see PFP's with a more universal application.  PFP#2 really 
> is a round-about way of saying what you observe, below.  But is not Slothrop 
> one of the Master's creatures?  PFP#2 makes no sense when applied to him, 
> thus "creature" must apply only to those kwnowingly in the employ of the 
> Master's conspiracy.

I think Doug's right (as is your last sentence above) in that the
proverbs are meant to make sense from Slothrop's paranoid POV -
struggling to make sense of the creatures serving the invisible master.
This also goes with the first PFP - that you can't touch the master, but
tickle his creatures. It's Slothrop here that's trying to touch the
master by tickling his creatures.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra                  mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
Dept of Computer Science           University of Minnesota
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