NP: What is GR about?

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Mon May 1 22:06:42 CDT 2006


It's about getting a boner because a ballistic missile is about to
hit.  As Americans did, throughout the Cold War.

(More recently, They have been trying to make us get a boner about
attacks by terrriss.  But it's not the same.)

On 5/1/06, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> The question I hope for/dread: someone casually asks what GR is about.  I know they don't want the huge explanation the book requires.  My own attempt at a sound-byte answer:  "It's about the psycho-sexual anxieties and paranoia that result from living in a world controlled by the military-industrial complex in the presence of The Bomb."  Not easy to get out in one breath.  Anyone out there care to give their own sound-byte explanations?  Would love a better one.
>
> Laura
>




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