GR 'Streets'

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Thu Apr 17 15:43:03 CDT 2003


on 18/4/03 6:22 AM, David Morris at fqmorris at yahoo.com wrote:

>>> 2.  The headline doesn't say "atomic bomb."
>> 
>> No. It just said "Bomb". My mistake.
> 
> No, it says "MB DRO ROSHI," and that's the whole point.  Why not have Slothrop
> find the whole headline and then reflect directly on what he's looking at?
> It's because he doesn't understand it (even though we do).  Instead he starts
> to dream...

These last two are your interpretations. I disagree with them. The text
doesn't say he doesn't understand, and it doesn't say he starts to dream.

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