BE images

[Michael Bailey]

eidetically thinking, one way that potently always lodges in my mind -
such as it is - after reading, including & especially this author's
work, is the images that remain, such as

pear trees

maxine watching the kids leave for school on their own

the archer in deep archer -- Sagittarian influence mayhap

the person (or entity) at the bottom of the stairs

the rachel wig giving way to the lara croft wig (segued in my mind
over to the final scene of friends when they give up the rent
controlled apartment that belonged to ross & rachel's grandma, like
ross leaving the key somewhere or something)(you ask me, joey shoulda
bought the building and developed into a rounded character, instead of
giving the 6 of them a million an episode or whatever, give them 900k
instead and have a few more characters on an ongoing basis (Seinfeld
too)) (model it after a soap opera, a big motif anyway as that was his
job, eh?) (bring elliott gould in more often, for one thing)(a-and the
Friends episodes after 9-11 wow, remember those? the weird piano bar
story arc?) but anyway...

those few -- anybody get any other potent eidetic takeaways? -- are
compelling enough for me to feel like there's enough material around
them to be worth unpacking at leisure

tryna think (but nothing happens) of the magical realism in this book,
voila it is that nose thing, right?  so i suppose that'd be another
image, or at least a clickable spot

john barth did a lot with computer references for instance in _Coming
Soon!!!_ and perhaps there is a traceable influence -- i for one think
barth an influence -- like trading eights or something -- on or with
TRP although i'm not ready with chapter and verse to prove it

& i suppose i ought to quote William Gibson who said somewhere about
9-11 that it changed everything
(although i keep thinking of mr natural saying "It was ever thus")
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