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[Joseph Tracy]

On Feb 11, 2009, at 7:41 PM, John Bailey wrote:
>>
> Later in the novel we're explicitly told that Thanatoids are memories.
Do you have a page reference for that?
>
> Also ties in with the ambivalent status of the media - film and tv can
> act as a kind of cultural memory bank, but can also distort or falsify
> those remembrances. Some ghosts can't be trusted.

I also see the Thanatoids as a stand in for a dead culture addicted  
to a reality mediated by professional  liars/fiction makers/ 
entertainers. But the Thanatoids are all troubled by the specifics of  
their own betrayal.

It is this discrepancy between expectation( maya, tubelight,  
Frenesi's blue eyes)  and reality (the continuum of Life and Non life  
without insurance, now, vineland the good) that is asking for  
adjustment.