IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?

[Dave Monroe]

Il n'y a pas de hors-texte, non?  But that's an
interesting coda to the Slothrop saga there, which
ends (diegetically, chronologically) before that
"final delta-t" (which echoes Slothrop's attenuated
"temporal bandwidth") at The Orpheus Theater ...

"There's supposed to be a last photograph of him on
the  only record album ever put out by The Fool, an
English rock group--seven musicians posed, in the
arrogant style of the early Stones, near an old
rocket-bomb site, out in the East End, or South of the
River. It is spring, and French thyme blossoms in
amazing white       lacework across the cape of green
that now hides and softens the true shape of the old
rubble. There is no way to tell which of the faces is
Slothrop's: the only printed credit that might apply
to him is 'Harmonica, kazoo--a friend.'"

Hm ... that echo of that "The Last Green and Magenta"
episode of Part IV of GR there ...

   "The heath grows green and magenta in all
directions, earth and heather, coming
of age--
   "No.  It Was Spring."

Anyway ... well, not quite sure how it's being
proposed that any fictional (and then some ...)
character "escapes" or whatever a text here (or
elsewhere), much less Slothrop. Although ...

"It's doubtful if he can ever be 'found' again, in the
conventional sense of 'positively identified and
detained'"

That "last photograph" is only "supposed" to be of
him.  Then again, "There is no way to tell which of
the faces is Slothrop's," not "There is no way to tell
which of the faces is supposed to be Slothrop's," or
somesuch, so ... but if, indeed, one of those faces is
Slothrop's, it might or might not be retextualized all
the same--"a friend."  Some interesting equivocations
there ...


--- Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com> wrote:
 
> To me the opposite is true, Slothrop is stuck in the
> text, and the
> reader is the one set free. You could say that is
> possible because
> Slothrop has been teleported into the reader's
> conscience, but to me he
> fades as the book itself moves in its own inertia to
> the inevitable end.
> Slothrop can't go home again, but the reader has to.
> Like waking up . . .

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