A Tryst with Trist

[Steelhead]

Lately I've taken to re-reading the Crying of Lot 49.

For those more interested in the political/historical meaning of this
little chap book-rather than endless recursions and  explications of its
phenomenological underpinnings, its full-blown flowering of the latest in
pomo-pop trivia, or the certain ineluctable cachet it has an an Ur-fractal
masterpiece-the biography of one Nicholas Trist--child of the Other Century
(born in 1800), student and grandson-in-law of Jefferson, clerk to Indian
killer Andy Jackson, American consul to Cuba, negotiator of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, deemed a traitor by that bane of Henry Clay, James "Dark
Horse" Polk, whose great promise to the nation was to finalize the
acquisition of California, which he accomplished through the Mexican
War--might be instructive to one degree or another.

Steely

PS I was just lurking when that mighty orca Jules jetted across the
zone, lurking in utter amazement at the sheer spectacle of it all.