GRGR(32) - Tchitcherine's Haunting

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pp. 703-706

As in the passage immediately before Tchitcherine's Haunting, we
get a little more about Theories of History. In his haunting
Tchitcherine seems to be playing completely within the Marxist
theory he defended to Wimpe - gives him justifications for death,
etc.

My concern is - is it a haunting, or not? Cf. 704 -

	"Not dead. You're not much use dead." Two more olive-drab
	agents have come in, and stand watching Tchitcherine. They
	have regular, unremarkable faces. This is, after all, an
	Oneirine haunting. Mellow, ordinary. The only tipoff to
	its unreality is--

	The radical-though-plausible-violation-of-reality--

	All three men are smiling at him now. _There is no violation._

Is there? Later (706) we get a hint that he is indeed still experiencing
the drug - "with the plstic family toothbrushes still in their
holders on the wall, melted, strung downard in tendrils of many
colors [...]". If so, where are the hallucinations?

Also, something to think about - as we near the end, there are many,
many more small sections introduced with titles in small caps.
Why? There seem to be similar sections earlier in the text, which
aren't introduced this way (the Kenosha Kid letters - compare to
the letter from Mom Slothrop), so why the sudden proliferation of
them?

Apologies for the slow flow of GRGR-related messages. Still packing
and doing moving-related things. Gross Suckling stuff soon, and
please, if anyone has anything to say about the grossout banquet
at the end of this section, speak up - because I find it neither
(a) funny nor (b) all that gross. What gives?



Josh

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