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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/09/2014 19:10, Marc Aramini
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<div dir="ltr"> The blue book is titled <i>How to
Drive</i>. The rules include never picking up hitchhikers,
waving,
shouting, or invading the privacy of other drivers. He looks out
the
window and sees a bald man with a gold tooth and a mole looking
at
him from the window of a nearby house, and wonders that the man
is
not him at any age, because he feels it should be. Edna accuses
him
of reading the red book when he voices this sentiment.
<p> The red book’s cover shows people
surrounding a winged being. The left side is printed in
scarlet in a
language he doesn’t understand, though he does not believe the
translations match up very well. The black print describes the
twelve natures of Death and the Dead:<br>
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Looks like the red pill and blue pill of the Matrix, about twenty
five years early, only in book form! [Anyway, the form should be
irrelevant.]<br>
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I did a cursory internet check and found no precursors for a
red/blue = reality/dream trope (except an unconvincing red-only pill
from a 1990 film). Probably just coincidence, but it struck me when
I read Marc's post. Of course the red and blue pills are someging
of a meme now.<br>
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- Gerry Quinn<br>
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