Interim

[Toby G Levy]

Let me take advantage of this interim to ask some questions that have
been bugging me and I haven't seen any satisfactory answers to (although
I admit in advance to charges of inattention, so bear with me, please).

1.  from page 227: "Somehow the Doc had been authorized in those days to
send people, Weed included, a form that required them to come to his
offices at a certain time."  Who authorized this? Is there any evidence
besides this one word "authorized" that would lead one to think that Dr
Elasmo was working for "Them?"

2. from page 229: Is anyone else bothered by this statement? "Once he
would have proclaimed "Because in this country nobody in power gives a
shit about any human life but their own. This forces us to be humane --
to attack what matters more than life to the regime and those it serves,
their money and their property.""  I thought that before he was pressed
into action, Weed was a head-in-the-clouds Math professor, without
political beliefs.

3. from page 234: ""Weed is an FBI plant," Frenesi told him. "His job was
to lead us all someday up the wrong piece of trail and guess who'd be
waiting.""  and a couple of sentences earlier it is clear that Rex and
she are searching for the appropriate time to bump Weed off.  My
question: How does one sink any lower than this; how can any reader, of
whatever political persuasion have any sympathy for Frenesi after she
commits this heinous act?

4. from page 238: The banter of the worms playing cards inside Weed's
nose.  Isn't this lifted from the bats playing cards in the 1950s comic
strip Pogo?  And wasn't the poker playing bats lifted from somewhere
else, although I can't remember what it was?

Toby

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