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[Joseph Tracy]

On Feb 11, 2009, at 4:04 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

>  The Thanatoids are like ghost images (subtext) on a TV screen,  
> crying out to be brought into focus.

I like that. Kind of like the bodies and where they're buried in  
plain sight. Our real karmic issues, wandering, exiled and muddled in  
Tubeland.

     "But rather than telling us to avoid this often enjoyable crap,  
he's telling us to dig deeper within to find its hidden subtext and  
exert some sort of karmic adjustment"

  I also think TRP is exploring the range of outlaw culture  
including  non-political criminality with Wayvone occupying the role  
of the sophisticated but dangerous  and V&B the crude but relatively  
harmless , well as harmless as the ferrymen over the river Styx can  
be.  But there is  a sense in which a nation's  criminal enterprises 
( Vietnam) will teach its "soldiers" to be criminals.