ATDTDA (5): The American Corporation

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/2/07, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> funny but Coover describes Cinecity, the porn metropolis in Adventures
> of Lucky Pierre, in similar terms as a weeping widow, a cruel bitch,
> among other things
>
> Rich
>
> On 4/2/07, Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > Cf the personification of the city as a "weeping widow" etc, "developing
> > into the meanest, cruellest bitch of a city ..." (153-154). In particular,
> > note the consequences of "that terrible all-night rape, when 'he' was forced
> > to submit, surrendering, inadmissibly, blindly feminine, into the Hellfire
> > embrace of 'her' beloved". The Empire strikes back: the creature's 'arrival'
> > replicates the arrival of the exhibits, so-called, put on display (then
> > abandoned) at the Chicago Fair.

Joseph T also mentiond that "great city brought to sorrow and ruin"
bit of, I believe, Fleetwood Vibe's. Talk about yr apocalyptic tones,
Cf., e.g.,  ...

   Then one of the seven angels who were holding the seven bowls came
and said to me, "Come here. I will show you the judgment on the great
harlot who lives near the many waters.
   The kings of the earth have had intercourse with her, and the
inhabitants of the earth became drunk on the wine of her harlotry."
(Rev. 17: 1-2)

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/revelation/revelation17.htm

   After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having
great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor.
   He cried out in a mighty voice: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the
great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every
unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, (a cage for every
unclean) and disgusting (beast).
   For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion.
The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of
the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury."
   Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Depart from her, my
people, so as not to take part in her sins and receive a share in her
plagues,
   for her sins are piled up to the sky, and God remembers her
crimes...." (Rev. 18: 1-6)

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/revelation/revelation18.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon