Never mind, I looked it it up. I need to read some more Philip K. Dick. GALACTIC POT HEALER rewired my brain forever.

Agreed on both counts.

On Structure…
One of the prime questions raised by the book, for me, was, What does the obviously "false" i.e. "impossible" structure of the book mean? Why was it chosen, with its unnatural alternations between first-person and relative omniscience? This is not presented as just a story from an author's perspective,…

Ditto on Muldoon. I want a drawn poster of him, with one of his best quotes in big letters. Perhaps I'll commission one, right after I get that needlepoint made of the Bible verse about killing witches. Two things to commission. On my to-do list.

Thanks, Farmer John. You've had some great comments here yourself. I think you may be onto something with the idea of Kyd as pure gimmick—that is, that might explain his late introduction, as in he's almost a sort of Deus Ex Machina figure brought in to perform a very specific role in the story, unneeded until then.…

Violet White wasn't unresolved—she was the Rose White we saw at the end. She transformed herself into Rose White, leaving Violet White with her memory erased to be remade into a pulp heroine for Phillip Kyd. The whole idea of Augustine's, of belief preceding understanding, of finding something different and not…

The Godzilla I'd like to see…
I know a guy who wrote an unpublished GODZILLA screenplay about Godzilla being shrunk down to human-size and then trying to fit into society when everybody thinks he's just some crazy guy in a costume. There's a great scene in it where he does battle with a spring-rider animal at a…

Also, I think part of the reason for introducing the gorillas so early and so ambiguously was to make us, the readers, unsure of what sort of world we were in, and to keep us open to just about anything. Tonally, they were very important to the reading experience.

@Tasha, @Emily
Tasha—

Gilliam would be perfect for this. Also: Tim Burton, IF you could travel back in time at least a decade.

Thank you for the bouquet—which I can only hope doesn't hide a small nest of bees whose stingers have been filled with concentrated cancer-AIDS—and TWR, that quote is awesome.

FIRST
to say that this book was by far my favorite of all we've read so far this year. In a completely different league, even, of philosophical depth and imaginative creation. Also: it was funny!

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Like hell their fates were never known.
I'm a western historian, and there's no doubt whatsoever that Butch Cassidy escaped to South America and then probably later returned to Utah.

Did comments really get deleted? While those idiot Stepan Fetchit clowns got to tool around here for weeks?

I really thought she was going to apologize for referencing astrology
as if it were a legitimate thing. I thought maybe she read our comments and felt stupid.

L1, you're a funny guy when you're not talking politics.

"One thing you will never hear me say, because it's not something I even think at all, is that Chloe Sevigny is a bitch. In fact, I would be really upset and think it unjust if ANYONE ever said that. Why can't the whole world just be kind to her?"

Some of them are younger, I'm sad to say. Here in Albuquerque we have one of the very dumbest (and most racist and most locally visible) of the lot, and he's only in his 30's, I think.

Wikipedia, about Rocket Power: "The show has gained a very large cult following in the years after its original broadcast."