On another note: Slothrop and the Rockets

[David Morris]

This has a very nice feel to it.  This would make Slothrop more a product of 
genetic engineering than Pavlovian conditioning, and as you note, Pointsman 
does eventually abandon Pavlov.  His apparent escape would thus be illusory. 
  In fact he would be ever on their invisible elctronic leash.  Next time I 
read GR, I'll keep this theory in mind.

David Morris

>From: MalignD at aol.com
>Slothrop, I believe, is slowly turning into Imipolex G.
>
>And as the plastic "[entangles] with [his] bones and ducts," he is bleached 
>out, like Blicero, into the polymer's "brilliant transparency."
>
>Slothrop's disappearance is, then, not merely metaphorical: it is actual.
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