The marriage and sexual politics in this book continue to be very oddly soap-operalike and filmic to me. Or at least, the characters want their sex lives/marriages to be like a film.

Remember the part we discussed in class about Nick confronting Marian about her closeness with Brian? He wished he'd stood at the door so he could say something ominous about the potential affair and then walk away.... as if he wanted to make their marriage to play out like a drama. Nick wants to perfect the theatrics of domestic life.

Well it seems his brother is trying to do the same with Janet before their marriage, hoping she'll ask him to leave her job and get married.

I liked the part that starts on page 536, in which for a paragraph or two, the narrative is in the form of a film. Slothrop says "Springer, this ain't the fucking'movies now," to which Springer prophetically replies: "Not yet. Maybe not quite yet. You'd better enjoy it while you can. Someday, when the film is fast enough, the equipment pocket-size and burdenless and selling at peoples prices, the lights and booms no longer necessary, then...then..." At this point, the novel is starting to look towards the future; here is talk of the future of movies. Enzian is looking to the future of the Zone Hereros and his vision of a text, and a search that will require more Zone Hereros, not less.