Apocalypse: "Not for Sale in Canada"

[jbor]

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

snip
> That white, blank, blanched, bleached, bliceroed, blicerated, oblit(c/z)erated
> ("Blicero," "oBlicer ....") page (what IS the last page of Gravity's Rainbow?
THAT
> one, I'd venture ...), that thermonuclear flash (pikadon, the Japanese call
it),
> thunderbolt, lightning.

In my book there isn't a last page, just the inside back cover. It's blank,
but so is the inside back cover in most books. Then on the back cover there
is more writing: the publisher, title and author's name; excerpts from
reviews; a credit for the cover design; pricing information; a note which
says "Not for sale in Canada"; and an ISBN.

As I've said I think the point was then, as it is now, that that final
pokemon card has been suspended, but only just. I'm not convinced that
Pynchon is saying that the whole Cold War and the amassment of nuclear
arsenals thing is down to Blicero, as you seem to be saying. Perhaps there
is a point in there that at the end of any war in our time of devilishly
clever technologies when the about-to-be-vanquished army is in total
disarray all it will take is one maverick like Blicero to launch the
weapon/push the button or whatever, then game over everyone, but the
connections you are making here (as with that disingenuous "survey" ploy you
pulled re. the opening sequence) just aren't supported by the text.

Again, the Luddite essay isn't quite saying what you want it to, either, if
you read the whole thing, that is. It certainly isn't blaming Blicero, for a
start ...