BTZ42 p. 88 reasons

[Mark Kohut]

Pointsman just watches--and points. 

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> On Jun 11, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I really like the riff--more or less channeling Pointsman, it seems--on the sexual market. Processing human coupling, human pleasure--and so much more, especially (as the Roger/Jessica sections make us aware of) during the long winter of Wartime--in terms of the marketplace. 
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> "What does make the little doxies do it for free?"
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> Does this mean Pointsman pays for it? 
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>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> BUT "When we find it, we'll have shown again the stone determinancy  of everything, of every soul."
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>>   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
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>> 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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