GRGR(11) - PFP#2

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> "The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality
> of the Master." I read this as coming through Slothrop's POV as an
> observation on Bounce (and not as some other narrator's comment about
> Slothrop); two lines before Slothrop compares Bounce with Dodson-Truck,
> "Another innocent, a low-key enthusiast like Sir Stephen Dodson-Truck" then
> comes the proverb about "innocence". The idea being, I suppose, that
> Bounce, like Dodson-Truck serving immoral Masters may not be as "innocent"
> as they seem, as Murthy's restatement of the proverb makes clear.
> 


DT can not be innocent, because we are not in that time
"when the land was still free and the eye innocent, and the
presence of the Creator much more direct." The irony is that
this loser is defeated by Slothrop in a rigged game (the
odds belong to the past) where the objective is to lose or
get drunk. This is Slothrop's greatest triumph thus far. The
fact that he has been stripped of his "identity" (Hogan's
shirt) and that he has defeated the LINGUIST will have huge
implications later on. "But I'm innocent." "Sure ace, Fuck
You!"


 

TF