visual reversal

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
[snip]
>We are told,  "It is flight." Yes, Melodramatic flight. In
>this role, Slothrop pulls at the heartstrings and nearly
>cries, he runs with no place to go, the world has no use for
>him just now. "Convulsive, helpless, worn out, snuffling,
>wretched in his prison of soggy army wool," he thinks of
>her, she has missed him, it's the only place he knew to go,
>he climbs through her high window and the scene ends. We
>read on, and write our thoughts here, sometimes like the
>Conversation at the Spoon-"little more than proper nouns,
>literary allusions, critical or philosophical terms linked
>in certain ways." We might suggest that Slothrop represents
>the fisher king, now little boy blue,
[snip]

THEY have an identity in mind for Slothrop which involves regression:
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(204.14) Presto change-o!  Tyrone Slothrop's English again!
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Why do they want him to be British "again?"  Get him naked and give him 
Bloat's uniform.  Regression seems to be their goal, all the way back to 
ancestral times.  Note in the GRGR(10) their designs for his new mustache.

He _does_ regress into a baby, all alone and desperately needing someone to 
take care of him.  Mamma!  THEY will take care of him, won't they

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