Apocalypse: "Not for Sale in Canada"

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Sep 2 22:09:49 CDT 2000



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>From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>


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>> >From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
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>> > but I do think there might well be real, individual deaths--vs. abstract,
>> > universal Death--"a delta-t away" from the words standing for them
(V510/B594)
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>> Interesting that this reference to "pencil words on your page" and the
>> delta-t continues the reference to Slothrop's shrinking "temporal
>> bandwidth" at the verge of that "embankment" at 509.7. And I've said all
>> along how important Slothrop's protagonism in the novel really is ....
>
> And this is to establish what ...?


The actual context of the quote in the novel, I would imagine.



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