Isn't this a kind of statement by TRP that The White City, the whole Columbian Exhibition---America's whole proclamation of its own ideals......was a "dayllit fiction" compared to what life was really like in America then? <BR><BR><B><I>Monte Davis <monte.davis@bms.com></I></B> wrote:  <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">David Morris wrote:   <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid7d461dc80703191346m6ba47a94y5f67c1dfeb33733b@mail.gmail.com type="cite"><BR>The evidence that the CoC exist in the "real" world of AtD is in their <BR>interaction with characters on the ground in Chicago and elsewhere <BR>(Merle, Dahly, Lew, etc.).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>This needs to be qualified with that line on p. 36:"...t<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">he great national <BR>celebration possessed the exact degree of fictitiousness to permit <BR>the boys access and agency.  </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;
 FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN></SPAN>The harsh nonfictional world waited outside the <BR><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">White</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>’s limits..."<BR><BR>So yes, there's interaction, but only under (un)certain circumstances.<BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>

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