Dialectics and conspiracy

[Henry Musikar]

I've always thought that the safety of ground zero was a joke (see end of 
GR) as it goes against the bell-curve distribution that I would expect. Any 
rocket-scientists?

>From: Michael Perez <studiovheissu at yahoo.com>
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:49:59 -0600
>
>In part of this episode where the narration is focused through Pokler
>it reads:  "why should he [Pokler] be picked, unless . . . somewhere in
>his brain now two foci sweep together and become one . . . zero ellipse
>. . . a single point . . . a live warhead, secretly loaded, special
>bunkers for everyone else . . . yes that's what he [Weissmann] wants .
>. . all tolerances in the guidance cooperating toward a perfect shot,
>right on top of Pokler . . ."[425, ellipses are Pynchon's]  Terrance
>was addressing universal conspiracies and I was adding my bit on
>personal conspiracies, AKA paranoia.  Pokler and Slothrop both thought
>that just in their cases everything was working right and the
>concentration of all involved parties was directed at making a direct
>hit just on them, even though, in Pokler's case, everyone knew that
>Ground Zero was the safest place to be.  I thought that might qualify
>as over the edge with regards to fear and self-importance.

AsB4,

Henry Mu

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