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Show Acting Alone Page 444 old man was strangely reticent in conversation on this matter, and seemed to have eyes only for the Great Battle sequence, as he called it.) And the electronic spy, after such dashing adventures, does not wind up getting killed with all his well-deserving comrades in the phony Peckinpah-derivative watermelon bust sequence, but is spared, rather doomed for a certain term to walk the night and stuff like that, to live the life of a forest-dwelling fugitive from the FBI and the CIA and everybody else - because, according to the old man who claims to be a real professional in the area of mass mythopoeic manipulation, a living and running anti-hero is more romantical and will sell more books, what with his potential of striking again, or of turning himself in and going straight and providing us with tons of incredibly damaging dope on the infernal Russkies. Also, sparing Axelrad leaves wide open the lucrative possibility of Psychosex Bio II. Yes, a psychosexual biography began to slither up and out from between the rolls of the IBM klunker, as at the old man's behest. Something medium-length and easy to read as Instant Breakfast is to drink, with short Vonnegutesque sentences and paragraphs, shrewdly taking a page out of children's books in these days of childish literacy levels. Something to look nice on Mini Mart shelves all across the country. Not so thick as to tax anybody's attention span, yet hefty enough (if printed on nice, thick, pulpy paper) to give those folks a sense that they've just purchased a nice substantial consumer item and gotten their money's worth. Yes, a consumer item was slithering up in the Holly Sugar Building now, something that will look appropriate in airport terminals. Just a little something to undermine totally, once and for all, America's already shaky faith in the liberal arts educational system as put |