Rain Taxi Review

[David Morris]

I think Monte meant this to go to the whole list, but hit the wrong button.

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From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Rain Taxi Review
To: monte.davis at verizon.net


Yes.  That scrap of newspaper showing God's Big Dick penetrating from
above, the ultimate bomb-penis, becomes the hidden-in-plain-view
thought behind the thought.

On 12/19/06, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Speaking of things very much present in GR without being there, I'm thinking about a mini-article for Tim Ware's GR wiki headed "ICBMs" or "Arms Race." The Rocket is omnipresent, while the Bomb is ostentatiously offstage, teasing us with just a scrap of newspaper. But it's my contention that as of August 1945, with both technologies on the scene, it was inevitable that ~200-mile V-2s would be pushed toward ICBMs (with extra urgency by the USSR, which didn't have big-bomber fleets and air bases all around the periphery of its potential opponent)... and that unwieldy nukes would be miniaturized to ride them.
>
> Does anyone doubt that the 1973 warhead impending on p. 760 has more in common with the Kirghiz Light than with a ton of amatol? Or that given the explicit subject matter of GR, the full-blown balance of terror -- all WWII in an afternoon -- isn't very much an implicit subject, for an author with Boeing on his resume?