TRP and Godzilla, misc.

[Richard Fiero]

In Vineland:
"We are assured by the Bardo Thödol, or Tibetan 
Book of the Dead, that the soul newly in 
transition often doesn't like to admit — indeed 
will deny quite vehemently — that it's really 
dead, having slipped so effortlessly into the new 
dispensation that it finds no difference between 
the weirdness of life and the weirdness of death, 
an enhancing factor in Takeshi's opinion being 
television, which with its history of picking 
away at the topic with doctor shows, war shows, 
cop shows, murder shows, had trivialized the Big 
D itself. If mediated lives, he figured, why not mediated deaths?"