GRGR(26) - The Word made Ink

[David Morris]

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(571.32)  It touches Slothrop's own Puritan hopes for the Word, the Word 
made printers ink, dwelling along with antibodies and iron-bound breath in a 
good man's blood, though the Word for him be always the World on Monday 
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Ink is the counterpart to Slothrop's paper-heritage.  It is the spiritual 
message which needs the earth-bound medium for its manifestation.  In the 
Book of Changes ink would be hexagram #1: "The Creative," (male) and paper 
would be #2: "The Receptive" (female).

It's interesting that this woman's image of her father is one of "flight."  
Here is another father who has purposely left his family,  not for the _War_ 
exactly, but for the Word, a noble cause.  He would be an example of the 
Counterforce, but the result for his family is still the same: abandonment.

BTW, how does a fatty like Slothrop manage to get so many women into bed 
with him?  Maybe it's got something to do with the "fatty" between his legs.

David Morris
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