Somewhat NP Argentinians bound for Germany

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Sun Aug 6 21:39:06 CDT 2000



On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, J Suete wrote:

 >how does one account for the all the
 >other Argentine scenes in Gravity's R?

Including Tangerine, to whom toasts are raised to in every bar across the
Argentine. p.264
 
>The Argentines are, after 
> all, one of the major ethnic groupes in the book. Why are they there
> in the first place? Why not Brazilians?

Brazil gets represented by Carmen Miranda though of course her most famous
head piece was featured in "Down Argentine Way."

For what it's worth.

	`			P.





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