Red & Jack

[DudiousMax at aol.com]

Yo,
           Well here we are only 10% of our way into GR and there is a 
sequence that mentions "Red" Malcolm, who may not stand for Orson Welles, but 
seems to stand for Malcolm X; and Jack Kennedy, the Ambassador's kid, who was 
known to be a strong swimmer, and who seems to stand for the historical JFK.  
What do they have in common?  They were each assassinated.  "And only one 
president, and one assassin, and one election."  And somehow, without saying, 
"HEY, LOOK AT THIS," TRP has put political assassination out there for us to 
deal with.  Not just in the abstract, but the most American of events, the 
Presidential assassination.  And not the historical type of Abraham Lincoln; 
but the most recent one that is fresh in each of our consciousnesses.  Not 
only Presidential assassination, but (in Malcolm X) the assassination of a 
disturbing political figure.  And later in the text he will have a resort for 
assassins.  So we should keep this category in mind.  It is now "in play" in 
the text.  Assassination, which is no shit.  But what do I know?  I'm only...
                                                                        Max