A Narciso query

[Ted Samsel]

JUst wait 'til '98! Are we gonna have a 10 hour PBS marathon on the
Spanish-Merkin War?

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> Steely's mention of CL49, and his characteristic demand of--keep it 
> historical/political you metaphysical numbskulls!--coincidentally follows my 
> coming across this morning an ad for a book titled: NARCISO LOPEZ AND THE 
> FIRST US INVASION OF CUBA.  I was boggled by the name, and the latino 
> connection (thinking of Jesus Arrabal on the beach with his anti-Christ Pierce) and 
> now Steely's reference to Trist's Cuban connection--well,it's a little boggling (but I 
> am easy to boogle).  I haven't checked the COMPANION to CL49, so maybe this 
> Narciso Lopez is well-known to others.  Any enlightenment, homme de fer (the 
> way I once heard Superman referred to in an episode set in the French Canadian 
> wilderness)?
> 
> john m
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> >
> >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.
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