Repost: "The Big One"

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

     Henry :
     I once asked a little girl who had just seen "Bambi" for the first time 
     what her favorite part was.  She was a particularly bright child, but 
     very young, and so without guile she told me "When Bambi's 
     mother was shot."  I understood immediately!  It's the most 
     exciting scene!

The one that stuck in my my was that baby skunk with the decidedly bent 
line reading of:

     "You can call me Flower if you want to!"

Very Cyprian, if you ask me.

Oh yes, I was about four or so, kept repeating the line over 
and over. Must have drove the parents insane.

Anarchists [there's a whole new breed of them, these days] and
Steampunk enthusiasts seem to be the most pleased with 
Against the Day. I suspect the book will pull in a different sort of 
reader than the people who read Gravity's Rainbow when it first 
emerged.