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[Mark Kohut]

bekah writes:

Frenesi  reports to Vond about how the "key log"  came loose.  The key log would be the pivot on which a woodpile is balanced - if this log is moved the pile comes tumbling down).  Key log equals Atman and because his credibility is now doubted and  paranoia pervades the campus,  "it worked." So it  was obviously a plot by Vond.

But Vond tells her that Atman really is an infiltrator having been "convinced" at the dentist visits.  Now Vond gives Frenesi the gun to give to Rex and he tells her that if she can bring a camera she can bring a gun -

"... one is make-believe, one is real... what if there is some branch point in your life, where you'll have to choose between worlds?"  (pg 241)  -

and now we've got a pretty graphic description of the gun as sex-organ metaphor - or is it to the point of being a semiotic sign?
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Look how the tree metaphor is used to show its corruption within the Vineland world.....

A-And, gun as sex-organ metaphor and camera as roughly equal to a gun....and remember Teflon and his camera
at the sex act in V. ?