Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Keith Davis]

     And here we are introduced to our hero, Tyrone Slothrop, though he
doesn't appear in person. Teddy Bloat, sent to spy on him, for reasons yet
unrevealed, finds a desk, which results in a Plist (pun fully intended),
littered with the slothful accumulation of "bureaucratic smegma".
Everything from official documents pertaining to the war, to bits of
tobacco and erasers and odd pieces of jigsaw puzzles, broken ukelele
strings, all seem to be of equal importance, or lack of same, to our hero...
     Seems Teddy Bloat, whose ass was saved by the quick reaction of Pirate
Prentice in the first section, is a spy, for whom we are not yet told,
though it must be official, SHAEF sword hairbrushes and all. His old
college friend, Lt. Oliver ("Tantivy") Mucker-Maffick (a name which seems
to beg for multiple layers of interpretation), shares an office with
Slothrop at ACHTUNG (I won't preach to the choir about the beauty of this
acronym..), and must have mentioned Slothrop's soon to be infamous map....
   Multicolored stars labeled with women's names, coinciding with the
locations of bomb disasters Slothrop's been sent out to investigate for
ACHTUNG. What does it all mean?
   And, more importantly, to whom does it all mean anything?

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