Most-Disturbing line for any Would-Be Paranoid

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 12:37, Steve Maas wrote:
> "your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"
> --Gravity's Rainbow, p. 134

Very disturbing but almost equally disturbing is that that girl Eileen,
the one you left your heart with at the stage door canteen, is keeping
the damn thing in a refrigerated compartment for what nefarious purpose
you dare not imagine.. 

Part of the much admired Evensong interlude.

Yet who can presume to say WHAT the war wants, so vast and aloof is it .
. . so ABSENTEE. p.131

War as insatiable and unfathomable Desire.

P.