BTZ42 p. 88 reasons

[Mark Kohut]

Doncha just love that paragraph riff on possible explanations for what happens around Slothrop?
This paragraph actually moves the desire that foretells the rocket mostly to the women's--the doxies--desire. WIth that connection to " free love" and more lovemaking the nearer the possibility of death. For them.

Here, Slothrop's penis is akin to a heat-seeking object itself. Led to his girls amidst the cues about the rocket attacks that no one is subtle enough of heart to see, so the riff goes. 

BUT "When we find it, we'll have shown again the stone determinancy  of everything, of every soul."    

  Isn't that " again" one of the most brilliantly placed words in this brilliant book, reminding me of Babel's remark about the perfectly placed period and

perhaps again making The case at the narrator level that Monte Davis is always emphasizing??
[ can't speak w surety re Davis, of course] 
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