2. Is the science fiction referred to entirely written SF or does it include SF produced by other media? Might there be a different between thirties magazine SF and thirties movie SF?

3. How does the narrator explain the popularity of SF imagery in such unlikely venues as gas stations?

4. There are two references to Hitler in the story. What do they imply about the political content of the icons?

5. Does the story invite you to embrace wholeheartedly the narrator's preference for the realist continuum over the Gernsback continuum? Which way does the descriptive language point?