BE Chap 24, cont. P's great lists

[Mark Kohut]

p 261....the list, Windust's place.....P's compressed 'social realism',
Sinclair Lewis
on observational speed with also P's hysterical irrealism in some of the
items...."snack products
with official-looking waivers where the nutritional information is usually
found", like that.....
and a single beet, a major Russian vegetable, a synecdoche for the segue to
the KGB? [where Putin
started his rise, of course], "still an arm of Russian espionage, its
mission statement includes destroying
America through cyberwarfare.".....Mischa and Grischa are recent graduates
of its Civil Hackers' School. ....

TRP knew the real Putin Russia by the time of this novel obviously and said
so right here. Can't say we
didn't know. "these days the Russian mob and the government share many
interests"    p. 264