Again, dealing with the prologue. I feel like a lot of passages really allude to the aura of the Cold War without being painfully obvious. Or I’m trying too hard to look for Cold War references. Anyway, I like that it’s subtle.

When the engineer is talking through the blanket to the “other side”, I thought about Russia and the US, talking to each other but often not seeing each other really, blocked off by some sort of ideological blanket….but that might just be me….that’s on pg. 26.

On page 27 the line “nothing is the same”…well, it jumped out at me. Hoover hears about the bomb, and nothing is the same.

I so want to break out into song. I'll refrain, though.

I rather liked the Prologue…and am quickly picking up on DeLillo’s writing style, which I think I rather like. I notice that he uses repetition to make something stick in the reader’s mind. It sounds pretty cool, I think. Here are a few examples:

Pg. 23 “Edgar fixes today’s date in his mind. October 3, 1951. He registers the date. He stamps the date.”

Pg. 27 “He’s reading and reading the sign. He’s reading the sign.”

Pg 28. “A man slowly wiping his glasses. A staring man. A man flexing the stiffness out of his limbs.”