Tyrone's Race

[Richard Romeo]

>"Light in August" by TRP?
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nuclear light, if anything, I suppose ;)

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>The only glitch in your concept is that Tchitcherine has no "black blood," 
>so that any resemblence to Tyrone would not suggest his "half-blackness," 
>but maybe his "half-Russianess."
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>Their resmblence is purely spiritual.
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>DM
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But, what's with Vaslav's enmity towards Enzian all about, if not some sort 
of taint he feels by being "related", his father consumating a relationship 
with a negro. doesn't this relate in some way to all of Slothrop's 
repression in the early parts of GR with blackness, to its flowering (or 
de-) in the 2nd half, his embrasure of the Other, typified, I think, by that 
dress-wearing surreal scene in the latter parts of GR, waiting on a black 
caller, if I'm not mistaken. Of course, Tchitcherine is only saved from sin 
by magic from Geli--who's to say if he'd transcend his positions when the 
potions wear off.

another aside--isn't this same thread existent in M&D at the Cape--Dixon's 
attraction to the dark native, accepting of it, while Mason's attraction is 
tinged with revulsion of the Vroom's plans for black/white procreation and 
the selling of flesh.  I know this has been discussed before, but I'd be 
curious:  Is Mason picked by the Vroom's because they figure he'd be willing 
but shamed into compliance in the scheme, in effect, using his guilt against 
him, whereas Dixon would be willing but is dangerous because of his 
affinities for the slaves, hence he is not the subject of the Vroom's 
attentions?

Rich

Rich
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