mutual paranoia in grav rainbow

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

corporation GE (along with some US troops) is sending out some of its  
engineers to look over post VE day German technology,



> "charles, meantime, is making on his clipboard what look like studious  
> notes, but are really observations of the passing scene such as "They are  
> all looking at me, or Lieutenant Rinso is plotting to murder me," and of  
> course the ever reliable "He's one of them too and I'm going to get him  
> some night",

> well by now Charles's colleague here, Steve, has forgotten about the  
> Russians, and discontinued his inspection of a flushing valve to take a  
> really close look at that Charles, you cant pick your search team, not if  
> you're just out of school and here I am, in the asshole of nowhere, not  
> much more than a gofer to this - what is he a fag? What am I? What does  
> GE want me to be? Is this some obscure form of company punishment, even  
> good God, permanent exile? I'ma career man, they can keep me out here 20  
> years if they want, n'nobody'll ever know, they'll just keep writing it  
> off to overhead"
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