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[Doug Millison]

"[...] I went to an S/M/Leather conference in Palm Springs and one of the
workshops I went to was about electricity play. A lot of people like to
play with electricity. The two most popular forms of electricity are the
violet wand, which is this long thing with a blue light and feels like a
bug zapper. The other is the tense unit, which a lot of people use if they
go to a chiropractor. It stimulates the muscles and it actually can
contract your muscles. So I've dabbled in electricity play, but I don't
like it at all. Not my thing. Not my fetish. Not into it. However, when I
teach advanced workshops on anal sex, they ask me about electricity play in
your ass. There are these butt plugs that conduct electricity. So finally I
decided I gotta go learn about this stuff and learn about it from beginning
to end. [...]"
http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/11/01/tristan/index.html

"Son, been wondering about this, ah, "screwing in" you kids are doing. This
matter of shooting electricity into head, ha-ha? "  [GR 698]

A few lines later, this moves right into some of GR's Gnostic material:
""A-and who sez it's a dream, huh? M-maybe _it exists_. Maybe there _is_ a
Machne to take us away, take us completely, suck us out through the
electrodes of the skull 'n' into the Machine and live there forever wth all
the other souls it's got stored there. _It_ could decide who it would suck
out, a-and when. Dope never gave _you_ immortality. _You_ hadda come back,
every time, into a dying hunk of smelly _meat_! But _We_ can live forever,
in a clean, honest, purified Electroworld--"

Just noodling, but that "you" sounds a bit like the you of "You didn't
really believe you'd be saved" back on page 4, some old fuddy-fuddy dad who
just can't understand his kid's dog collar.  But the We sounds very like
the novel's They, trusting the System above all.

In M&D, the Rev'd Wicks Cherrycoke doesn't need a Machine to take him away
to that state of Hindoo enlightenment, nor does Dixon need a machine to tap
the Spirit in his Quaker practice.  All they need to do is sit quietly and
wait.