GRGR(19): Movie-child

[Scott Badger]

Jeremy Osner:
> p. 398 "A film. How else? Isn't that what they made of my child, a
> film?"
> (and, in the next paragraph, he calls Ilse a "movie-child"): I think
> this
> means, "instead of a real person, 'Ilse' is an entertainment for Franz
> [created by Weissman]". It's interesting that she is a "movie-child",
> when
> on the previous page he referred to those who share her date of
> conception
> as "shadow-children".
>

I read this as a reference to the frame-by-frame contact with Ilse that
Pokler is allowed.  An engineer's "reality" that might be questioned even if
it is the same girl each time.  Even if it is Ilse.

Scott