GR/evacuation/sirens

[jporter]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:05 PM, David Casseres wrote:

> I identify the screaming in the first sentence, and its echo three
> pages later, with the ICBM glimpsed at the end of the book, with arc
> of the bouncing ball, and with "Snowballs have Flown their Arcs."  It
> is the ur-scream, the god-cry.
>

Or the anti-god cry, as it were, some new hybrid of
consciousness and machine, promising something "Bad"
as in Badass; not necessarily evil, but certainly capable
of some awesome hijinks.

The morph from snowballs to ICBM's is a little reminiscent
of Kubrik. How will the Smurfs deal with this new threat to
their world?

jody