visual reversal

Terrance F. Flaherty Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Wed Sep 15 12:44:40 CDT 1999


David Morris wrote:

> 
> THEY have an identity in mind for Slothrop which involves regression:
> ----------
> (204.14) Presto change-o!  Tyrone Slothrop's English again!

OK
> ----------
> 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.

Yes, presto, what a (flawed) perfect scheme . Yes, waxing
back through Slothrop's ancestry, with vomit flowing back
into the mouth and all. Do you connect this to V.enus?



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