Bravo!, Bekah, brilliant thorough posting(s)

[Mark Kohut]

I'm still digesting.

The Unimagined = after a nuclear war? Those are bomb shelters, it seems.

Sparky (and others) on poles = Heart of Darkness allusion (to the heads on poles); the horror; the horror?

'going underground"....I think of those Oedipa meets when she learns of the alternative mail system...and I think
of the lost world coming up at the end of Vineland....