BtZ42/12 - Acronyms, Pudding's recipes, and a projective test

[Thomas Eckhardt]

The Gothic is in there, always. I once proposed to read BE in part as a 
technological/internet Gothic novel. The deep web/Montauk Project/cold 
war/child assassin scenario in particular I read as an updated Gothic 
horror story. Significantly, P refuses to frame this as fantasy, 
although he cannot possibly believe the Montauk urban myth (I think) 
even if the Montauk myth references the proven and documented MK-Ultra 
efforts to create the programmed assassin...

Yes, this is important.

>...if we read this as a Gothic horror novel, here is an
> objective correlative.
> and one of P's classic coded tropes that last through BLEEDING
> EDGE...(have the early readers and
> scholars read BE as a gothic horror novel. yet?)
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