GRGR(30) - On Stolen Horses

Jeremy Osner jeremy at xyris.com
Fri Jun 30 15:03:33 CDT 2000


David Morris wrote:

> Each of our Counterforce heros is reintroduced "riding into town" on a
> stolen (green) vehicle.  Each is on a mission: find Slothrop.  They're all
> "agents of the Pope got religion."

Cool... I had noticed the Pirate/Mexico part of the equation (though not the
greenness of it all) but skipped right over Katje's belonging to this
freebooters' collective. (Though sadly I don't think there's any evidence that
Katje's bicycle is green.) I guess I had just been thinking the stolenness of
the vehicles was meant to emphasize the lawlessness of the Zone/ the anarchistic
(Bonnie and Clyde) leanings of the counterforce.

Jeremy




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