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Joseph Tracy
brook7 at sover.net
Fri May 6 07:54:27 CDT 2016
Not Slothrop, Spectro. What Laura is saying makes sense of the odd collection of inner thoughts of patients that fill much of the chapter. I thought that because Spectro seemed to think his injections dealt with pain, that they were morphine or a similar pain killer. Maybe I am wrong or maybe they are both truth serum and sedation/analgesic.
> On May 6, 2016, at 12:09 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Wasn't that phrase a measure of a prospective typist's skills in a timed test?
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> You say Slothrup is experimenting on humans? Please quote that. I don't think that is true.
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> David Morris
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> On Thursday, May 5, 2016, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> No one responded to my earlier comment about Spectro and his Fox being a set up for "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Why is the dog lazy? Because it takes years of testing, conditioning, measuring, etc. before it gives out any information. Spector's human fox is quick because it just takes one shot of the truth serum Pointsman is hankering to use on Slothrop, and it (he/she) blabs big time.
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> Spectro seems to be experimenting on traumatized soldiers and civilians ( I think the kids mentioned are just part of Pointsman's fantasy). He injects them with serum so they can revisit and talk about their trauma. But is it serum therapy for the traumatized or testing the ability of the serum to get people to talk?
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> Laura
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> Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> I like stouts, have no taste for IPAs. I’m glad for the IPA makers that someone likes them. I like people who like IPAs, but they taste like someone stirred in acetone to me. Maybe I have Irish chemistry. I don’t know, but words will not change this .
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> Anyone else up for a group read of a masterpiece or is this project going up in smoke?
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