Foreword "Anti-Semitism"
David Morris
fqmorris at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 28 08:40:44 CDT 2003
--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And *I* would like to highlight the sensitivity of my own symbolical dowsing
rod by reminding one and all of my perspicacity in pointing out back then that
not only are the "Ss" in the pulley an unmistakable SS reference (nods to
Doug), their circumscription by the "O" of the pulley makes the entire image
also a reference to the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) which figures later
in the text.
The "Ss" are more directly a reference to the Yin-Yang symbol, as are those two
fish swimming tail to tail in their bowl. These symbols are much more
important to the novel tanh any reference to the SS, or even to the OSS.
David Morris
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