VV(19) Limeys and Kilroys

[jbor]

on 7/8/01 1:55 PM, Samuel Moyer at smoyer at satx.rr.com wrote:

> 
> So maybe he didn't notice his daughter?  Or it wasn't her?  I think it was
> Paola who took the comb and am a little surprised that he says he didn't
> notice her.  Of course in his apologia he shows that he was distraught over
> the death of Elena and hatred for the Bad Priest....

I agree with you about Paola and the comb. I think it also points up just
how remiss Fausto was as a father.

> Now back to the Kilroys.  V picked the comb up in Cairo.  The same night
> Paola hands the comb to Pappy, the English soldiers are heading for Eqypt.
> The crucified English soldiers on the comb are also called "Five kilroys."
> Symbolic in a way of the death to take place in the Suez Crisis... I think
> not... it doesn't at all compare with the destruction that took place in
> Khartoum.  I know there must be some connection between the five crucified
> limeys... five kilroys.... but I fail to see it...

I guess it's all about what "could have" happened again, or what has kept on
happening again in wars and political conflicts throughout the modern era,
the "kilroy" image becoming a trope for the more general human condition of
victimhood rather than for any specific nationality or race of people.

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