VV(11): There Is a Young Actor

[Dave Monroe]

"Up goes the balloon." (V., Ch. 3, Sec. ii, p. 67)

> "There is a young actor down at the Rusty Spoon who
> claims to be an Irish Armenian Jew." (V., Ch. 8,
Sec. iii, p. 224)
 
> What he was doing, he was generating hydrogen; 
> this went to fill a sturdy green balloon with a
> great Z printed on it.  He would tie the 
> balloon by a string to the post of the bed whenever
> he planned to sleep, this being the only way for
> visitors to tell which side of consciousness 
> Fergus was on." (V., Ch. 2, Sec. ii, p. 56)
> 
> Hm ... FM ("Someone turned on the FM," p. 225) an
> alchemist of sorts?  But note the "sturdy green"
> hydrogen Z-bomb deterrent as well.  And note 
> also the melting-pot ethnic mix(olydian) as well, yr
> yr hungry, yr oppressed, yr diasporic.  And note
> that "the rest of the Crew partook of the same 
> lethargy" (p. 56).  But to continue ...
> 
> "His other amusement was watching the TV.  He'd
> devised an ingenious sleep-switch, receiving its
> signal from two electrodes placed on the inner 
> skin of his forearm.  When Fergus dropped below a
> certain level of awareness, the skin resistance
> increased over a preset value to operate the 
> switch.  Fergus thus became an extension of the TV
> set." (p. 56)
> 
> Hm ...
> 
> "That is the whole idea of this machine, you know.
> Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of
> the enemy the fear to attack. And so, because of 
> the automated and irrevocable decision making
> process which rules out human meddling, the 
> doomsday machine is terrifying."
> 
> Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), in Dr. Strangelove,
> or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the
> Bomb (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1961)


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