Section the Third, pg.17-19

[Keith Davis]

....and, this is my fourth or fifth read of this wonderful...thingy?....I
lose track. I must say it's a pleasure and an honor to share it with you
all!

Let it RIP!

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> One addendum; the famous pile on Slothrop's desk, and the resulting Plist,
> includes many allusions to future references in this masterpiece of a
> novel, and gives us several clues to the character of our"hero"...see for
> yourselves, or cheat, like I did, and refer to Weisenburger!
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>      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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