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From: tallman@dspo.UUCP
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Subject: Prisoner correspondence (2) (SPOILER)
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 11:06:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 11:06:31 1985
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This is a summary of the reply letter to Dave Iannucci (see Prisoner
Correspondence 1).

From tallman Tue Mar 26 10:11:11 1985
To: lanl!ihnp4!allegra!sjuvax!ianucci
Subject: Prisoner letter

It is fine with me to post my previous letter. Maybe several people on the
net will remember the "Dance of the Dead" episode and fill in details.
It featured a fancy-dress festival and a compact radio.

> Re: sense of direction being bad, etc.  I don't understand your point.
> The way I understand this is that the Village is REALLY in U.K., and that 
> its being in Lithuania is only a hoax perpetrated upon him by his old
> colleagues (maybe against their will). He is navigating, but the pilot
> is just ignoring him and taking him to the real Village.

But wouldn't a clever man like the Prisoner realize the pilot was not
following his directions?  He could tell they were flying in a circle
by the position of the sun, landmarks, etc.

>        You're saying this is all a dream? Could you be more concrete?
> I don't see all the details of how this works.  Is it really just a dream
> from which he will wake the next morning?  Or is it something more? A waking
> delusion....? Or what? 

The way I see it, he has come to view the world as a place that forces
conformity, a place where no one can be trusted.  While he is packing after
he resigns he thinks "I can't get away this easily." He imagines someone
is gassing him through the door.  He collapses in his room, and the dream
continues.  He cannot escape until he breaks through the fantasy. He may do
this partially in the last episode (which I have not seen).

C. David Tallman - dspo!tallman@LANL  or {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tallman
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495
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C. David Tallman - dspo!tallman@LANL  or {ucbvax!unmvax,ihnp4}!lanl!dspo!tallman
Los Alamos National Laboratory - E-10/Data Systems
Los Alamos, New Mexico  -  (505) 667-8495