Slothrop, Tchitcherine's uniform

--- rosenlake at mac.com
Sat Feb 24 22:17:46 CST 2001


--- wrote:
> jbor wrote:
> > >From: --- <rosenlake at mac.com>
> > > It's a clever bit in Gravity's Rainbow when Pointsman's crew are
> > > drugging Slothrop to mine his presumed American black-hatred, and he
> > > complies -- except he's making it up, hoping for an insanity discharge.
> >
> > This is a new notion. Is there any textual evidence that Slothrop is able to
> > evade the effects of the Sodium Amytal and actually do this, make it up?

Thiopental sodium ("truth serum") is just a barbiturate. I think
Slothrop could handle it.

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Eric R



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