Slothrop's age #2

Douglas Lannark lannark at dougsmail.com
Wed Jul 26 11:06:23 CDT 2000


Hello Mark!

Many Thanks (Vielen Dank) from Berlin on a muggy afternoon in Berlin and, no, I have not drunk anny water in the Tiergarten.
You were the second person to respond, and that in great detail
plus encouragement. Please excuse my lousy typing and eventual English spelling mistakes. 

Yes, I agree that an "Infant" can be up to 18 months, max! "Toddler" was an excellent description, pity P. didn't use it. As I wrote to Kevin, we are told that TS is a double Virgo
and from the rest of the clues in GR, he can only be born in 1917, 1918 or 1919 as he was conditioned by L.Jamf in 1920 -
which sort of leaves out 1917, nicht wahr?! I am tending to lean towards 1918 as TS would have been 16-20 months during the periode of conditioning. 

I doubt, or have no evidence that a deal was made before TS was born. There is the older brother, Hogan, so if the financial situation of BS was so bad, he would have made a deal at that time, but this was the time of WW I and Germany was the enemy!

Ja, Mark, where does a 56 year old professional astrologer pendulating between Copenhagen, Berlin and Amsterdam apply for a grant, a grant to make a fictive horoscope for a figure in a novel?! Or do you know of any extraordinary angels? 

Happy searching and say hello to the PDT Zone,

Uncle (& Grandfather) Douglas, adjusting "Grants...!?"




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