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From: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci)
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Subject: Prisoner discussion
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 13:05:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 13:05:15 1985
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*** REPLACE THIS village WITH a  ...winnebago? ***

>>No symbolism, just out and out why did number 2 send him home (as it
>>were)?  What do folks think about this? 
>
>There were probably two reasons.  (1) yes, they let him go on
>holiday for his birthday.  He *was* very important to the
>Village, after all. 

      You can't be serious. Was it really his birthday?

>(2) Throughout the series one of the running
>motifs is the Village showing #6 how powerful it is and how
>it can control what he's doing at all times.  Classic example,
>and one in which #2 fails, is "Hammer into Anvil".

            Maybe I just missed something, but it seems to me that No.6
was in control in that episode.  To me, "Hammer into Anvil" showed that 
those who were in control of the Village did not always have the upper hand.
They were human, like everyone else, and someone with a superior intellect
could actually weaken them.

>It seems that the Village is in control of the entire course of
>the "Many Happy Returns" episode (with the possibility of
>error.  Note #2's reaction when #6 attempts to leave his London
>house before he's "scheduled" to do so).

       Please, for the sake of curiosity, refresh my memory, viz. No.2's
reaction.

>BTW, I've often suspected that the Village is mobile, which
>accounts for:  (1) the fact that #6's friends don't come
>looking for him afterwards (they know roughly where the Village
>is).

         They may have been given some sort of story and told to keep 
their mouths shut.  This is no ordinary business, you know. Strange
things happen, people disappear, and you can't just go against the will
of the bosses, or you may find yourself taking a nap at the bottom of the
Thames! Besides, they THOUGHT they knew where the Village was, and may 
actually have gone looking there.

>(2) the fact
>that he *drives* to London in the last episode. 

         The Village never had to be anywhere but where it actually was!
If it was in U.K., then it simply wasn't in Lithuania, where they thought
it was.

>(3) the
>amazing ability of the Village to evacuate itself entirely
>in a single night, or at the end of the last episode.

                 Sure, the people could be evacuated, but how could you
account for the *buildings*!! No, I don't go for this idea of a mobile
Village. If you have some more convincing arguments, Mike U., let's hear
them.
-- 
Dave Iannucci                             ihnp4!allegra \
St. Joseph's University                 psuvax1!burdvax - !sjuvax!iannucci
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"A witty saying proves nothing. "    --Voltaire