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altered throat structured was genetically conveyed. Having effected
alterations in the host's structure that resulted in a new species specially
designed to accomodate the virus the virus can now replicate without
disturbing the metabolism and without being recognized a virus. A symbiotic
relationship has now been established and the virus is now built into the
host which sees the virus as a useful part of itself. This successful virus
can now sneer at gangster viruses like small pox and turn them in to The
Pasteur Institute. Ach jungen what a scene is here ... the apes are moulting
fur steaming off them females whimpering and slobbering over dying males like
cows with aftosa and so a stink musky sweet rotten metal stink of the
forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden...

The creation of Adam, the Garden of Eden, Adam's fainting spell during
which God made Eva from his body, the forbidden fruit which was of course
knowledge of the whole stinking thing and might be termed the first Watergate
scandal, all slots neatly into Doc Steinplatz's theory. And this was a white
myth. This leads to the supposition that the word virus assumed a specially
malignant and lethal form in the white race. What then accounts for this
special malignance of the white word virus? Most likely a virus mutation
occasioned by radioactivity .All animal and insect experiments so far carried
out indicate that mutations resulting from radiation are unfavorable that is
not conductive to survival. These experiments relate to the effects of
radiation on autonomous creatures. What about the effects of radiation on
viruses? Are there not perhaps some so classified and secret experiments
hiding behind national security? Virus mutations occasioned by radiation may
be quite favorable for the virus. And such a virus might well violate the
equilibrium with the host cell. So now with the tape recorders of Watergate
and the fall out from atomic testing the virus stirs uneasy in all your white
throats. It was a killer virus once. It could become a killer virus again and
rage through cities of the world like a topping forest fire.

"It is the beginning of the end." That was the reaction of a science
attache' at one of Washington's major embassies to reports that a synthetic
gene particle had been produced in the laboratory ..."Any small country can
now make a virus for which there is no cure. It would only take a small
laboratory. Any small country with good biochemists could do it."

And presumeably any big country could do it quicker and better.

In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus
IS a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units
can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains. Let
us start with three tape recorders in The Garden of Eden. Tape recorder 1 is
Adam. Tape recorder 2 is Eve. Tape recorder 3 is God, who deteriorated after
Hiroshima into the Ugly American. Or to return to our primevil scene: Tape
recorder 1 is the male ape in a helpless sexual frenzy as the virus strangles
him. Tape recorder 2 is a cooing female ape who straddles him. Tape recorder
3 is DEATH.

Steinplatz postulates that the virus of biologic mutation, which he calls