VLVL Rex Snuvvle

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 15 16:15:37 CST 2004



jbor wrote:
> 
> >>> , becomes desperate, picks up a gun, kills his brother.
> >>
> >> Rex shoots Weed because Frenesi has convinced him that Weed is working for
> >> the FBI.
> >
> > Rex picks up a gun and kills his protégé, Weed Atman.
> > I don't think its the FBI's fault. That's the lame excuse Rex gives in
> > the fantasy scene with the girl, but I don't buy it.
> 
> Who said anything about it being the FBI's fault? Frenesi plants the gun;
> she's the agent provocateur. And I think you'll find that the speech at the
> bottom of p. 230 and top of p. 231 is subjunctive-Weed talking, not
> subjunctive-Rex.


232-233, I agree that it's Weed, but no matter. This point is rather
irrelevant, we  agree that Frenesi delivered the gun to Rex and that Rex
shot Weed dead with it. 

Again, this is dead horse. I'm moving on.



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