"your mother hoping to hang that Gold Star"

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In a message dated 3/10/2003 2:00:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:


> It's a partial answer to Roger's famous meditation on WHAT THE WAR
> WANTS. p.131
> 
> My mother is the war declares Roger . . . . P.39
> 
> 

What about dad? I mean w/r/t the metaphor, or whatever the proper
rhetorical term for substituting one's female parent for "the war" might be.
Unless Roger's was a virgin birth, "the war" had to mate with something
(or someone) in order to conceive him. The god of fiction, perhaps?

respectfully
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