You never did the Kenosha Kid?

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 05/09/2005, at 12:56 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> R:
> I think what you propose is correct, that Slothrop's deception is only 
> partially successful and that Pointsman is on to him anyway, which is 
> why he releases Slothrop early. The confessions don't provide any 
> information to support Pointsman's Pavlovian thesis, so he's quick to 
> cancel the sessions and debunk the results.
>
> P:
> Hope I am not being too harsh, but "what [I] propose" bears little or 
> no relation to the rest of the paragraph? No one can reasonably object 
> to your arguing your interpretaion,  but why do you need to imply that 
> someone else shares it?

No, just the usual. You did, however, propose that "any deception the 
subject might wish to perpetrate would be swamped by the distortion of 
reality produced by the so called truth serum itself", and I agree with 
that. But you certainly haven't said anything about Pointsman's 
analysis of Slothrop's experiment results (90) or Slothrop's early 
release from the hospital (114), and I offer one thousand and one 
apologies to you now if I've implied that you did. It won't happen 
again.

best