Slothrop's deconstruction, beginning on p.231 (Bantam)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

D. Patty:
 
> (Full disclosure: I'm working from the bias of my own read on
> things, that the dissolution of Slothrop's personality is in fact
> the only way for him to completely escape Their grasp [...].
 
Yup, sounds just about right. Slothrop's implicit choice is the same as 
Pökler's, between "personal identity and impersonal salvation" (GR 406, 
473 in the Bantam edition). Slothrop opts for dissolution and impersonal 
salvation - surely not a desirable fate.
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