AtD (37) p.1050, Paranoia runs deep....more musings prob. for nought

[Mark Kohut]

P 1050  

What's it all mean--the ability to change the past?  Is it a metaphor for a kind of regret cancellation in one's life? That chance to "if only I could go back and do something different in that situation?" Another machine--- as a "dangerous" technological device, it is NOT a good thing in TRPs world?---that promises a backward kind of perfection?...Or, if the owners get it "just right" is the best privacy invasion of all time?.The "perfect" life detector with no escape?  EVERYTHING you have ever done could always be seen?  (Reminds me of God's eye (Western Christian version) and of the Final Judgment, as literally expressed when I was younger).
 
Lew used to have these bilocational experiences in England...he would "go off" somewhere else....a kind of mind travel metaphor?......then just 'dreams' and diminishment 'with no time to brood".....like all the choices we felt we could have made but didn't, then got set into our 'real' one-and-only lives?... 

"Gorillas" = brutes of guys. thugs. 
 
"P.Q." Paranoia Quotient? 
 
When Roswell worries that Hollywood types will do to him and his machine what he fears was done to Louis Le Prince, who was real, "makin' it all disappear might not be enough for them"?...is this about Hollywood America revising its past?  Making it all disappear? Able to eliminate all the hidden 'truths'--injustices, violence

Lotsa the 'thoughts' here remind of the spy chapter to me....fear-mongering
with fear of spying everywhere...