ATDTDA p115 a paragraph of wackiness

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Seems like a reference to microchips.


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>From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net

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>trying to put one's finger on the nacreous globular point of maximum humor,
>requires a defter touch than I perhaps have;
>need some smart drugs or something...
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>...some kinda flip remark, like, "yeah, those messages in bottles
>have been makin' my life hell for years, a-and now I'm gonna
>hafta contend with attack pearls - those fiendish Orientals!"
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>and of course the longer I dwell on this, it both becomes funnier
>and more meaningful (as does the following passage where they
>go inside the bottom of the globe, finding the entrance has
>sphincterishly contracted (literalizing the title of their
>adventure, "Chums in the Bowels of the Earth, and giving
>oddball props to the Gaia hypothesis as well,) throughout echoing 
>Edgar Rice Burroughs adventures, which are sometimes unintentionally 
>hilarious - there was one book of his I brought along on a 
>camping trip, dealing with the "forbidden city of Ashair", 
>which was just an "s" away,
>and triggered much mirthful Beavis and Butthead laughter)
>
>Pearl couldn't refer to "Pearl Harbor", could it, or the Russian 
>revelations hundreds of pages later about Manchuria?
>Choosing to deplore a peaceful commercial invention like
>cultured pearls while really pointing to Japanese Imperialism?
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>These might be overtones...but also messages in bottles are such
>a "preterite" way to communicate that linking them to gleanings
>from jewelry - offshoots of the WASTE system, are they? -
>would place the Chums within a satrapy of the Tristero...
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