grgr (34): "now everybody---"

Dave Monroe monroe at mpm.edu
Fri Aug 25 10:44:07 CDT 2000


... can't start again if ev'rything (not to mention ev'rybody) has perished in a
nuclear holocaust, if we really are that "last delta-t" away from Apocalypse there.
Does the Rocket "scream" if no one is left alive to hear it?  Hm ... but that would
place that von Braun epigraph, that "1" "Beyond the Zero," that "Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon" and so forth outside the text, hors-texte, and, of course, il n'y
a pas ...

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:

>  ... it's a cyclical end and we could start again: a screaming comes across the
> sky ...




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