ATDTDA (2): "wheel" (41.27)

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     Dammit, cut off from my regiment here, gonna be captured 
and cremated by dacoits! Oh Jesus there they are now, unthinkable
 Animals running low in the light from the G-5 version of the city, red 
and yellow turbans, scarred dope-fiend faces, faired as the front end 
of a '37 Ford, same undirected eyes, same exemption from the 
Karmic Hammer---
     A '37 Ford, exempt from the K.H.? C'mon quit fooling. . . .

GR, 657 (but I've got the new version so all you kiddies 
out there in p-land have to pull out your
"Kaptain Midnight Kaballah Decoder Ring" 
to figure out pagination).

     But here something odd happens. Yes, damned odd. 
The plan is to smash up Byron and send him right back there 
in the shop to cullet and batch---salvage the tungsten, of 
course---and let him be reincarnated in the glassblower's 
next project (a balloon setting out on a journey from the top 
of a white skyscraper). This  wouldn't be too bad a deal for 
Byron---he knows as well as Phoebus does how many hours 
he has on him. Here in the shop he's watched enough glass 
being melted back into the structureless pool from which all 
glass forms spring and re-spring, and wouldn't mind going 
through it himself. But he is trapped on the Karmic wheel. . . .

GR, pg 664, 
second verse same as before

The "Tube" (14) is omnipresent throughout the work, from
 Zoyd's ability to interpret his life in terms of Wheel of Fortune 
(12-13) to the Twi-Nite Theatre made-for-TV movie, The 
Bryant Gumbel Story, starring John Ritter

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