GRGR 1,3 cubicle // winter birds

[jporter]

On Nov 11, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Cometman wrote:

> and Slothrop shares a cube with Mucker-Maffick but with desks at right
> angles so that eye contact involves "squeaking around some 90 degrees"
> (p 18, ln 6-7) (probably they have swivel chairs, but don't oil them)
> which makes him an inhabitant of "an invisible room" (p 4, ln 21-22) in
> a way
>

An orthogonal arrangement- like the alternating fields
of an electromagnetic wave, mutually self-propagating-

	fraternity-boy reflex in a vacuum

	At first Slothrop, quaintly gentlemanly, didn't
	talk at all, till he found out how shy Tantivy was...
	About the same time,Tantivy began to see the
	extent of Slothrop's isolation.

shy/isolated push each other along, vectoring into the future-
neat and messy with The Firm watching for opportunities to
exploit- but it's more than just a dialectic. Beneath the radar
and the usual lines of communication- tapped, monitored by
Them- beneath the corpus callosum connecting the right and
left sides of the brain; beneath the thalamus with its switches
and gates, lies a more primitive, instinctual, undivided region-
responsible for heart beats, erections and other emotionally
laden reflexes- not immune from conditioning- but not entirely
controllable, either, that existed before the self-important
hemispheres divided up reality to suit Their own neatly
preconceived ideas.

into a future not yet reduced to a certainty, but certain nonetheless;
will it be ironic that neat Tantivy gets reduced to newsprint, while
messy Slothrop gets to soldier on to bring us news from the Zone?

Memo to Tyrone: If it's not "The New of the World" its not "The
News of the World."

jody