GRGR(4) Slothrop's Sodium Amytal fantasy

[James Kyllo]

>: he spends a bit of time meditating on shoeshine boy "Red"'s actual name
>being Malcolm (reference to Mr. X?)

It sure is ... Malcolm X worked as a shoeshine boy in the Roseland Ballroom,
and was known as Red.  About 15 years ago I read Malcolm X's autobiography
directly after a read of GR and was shaken by this discovery.  It was
something of an epiphany, a realisation of how much depth there is in the
novels.  (Something this forum has regularly confirmed for me over the last
couple of years)

best

James

ps see following web page "the criminal phase in the life of Malcolm X"

http://hlm.le-village.com/malcom1/crim.htm