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.
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> Laura
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