GRGR(9) - The Golden Root/Man

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/17/99 9:55:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
fqmorris at hotmail.com writes:

<< Nobody yet has given their take on this passage, and it seems to occupy an 
 important place and time in the narrative, just before a "revelation."  The 
 presence might have "let Slothrop off easy," but instead he get's this "Two 
 Orders" revelation.  The implication is he'd be better off ignorant.  O-or 
 maybe that revelation is false?  Does anyone out there have another take on 
 this passage?  I'm at a loss on this one...
  >>
i always just took this passage as saying slothrop is beginning to see that 
he's up a creek without a mandrake. i don't see any deeper meaning...but then 
again i'll entertain the notion that i missed something.