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[Monte Davis]

bekah wrote:

>
> 167: 15   "The headline in next week's Bush Gazette would read SAVES 
> JEW FROM INSANE ELEPHANT.
>
>  The Bush Gazette?  (Is this any reference to Mr. GW?)

Seems a stretch; that they're out "in the bush" (and the absurdity of a 
newspaper for such a venue) seems enough of a gag
 

> 167: 20   Fleetwood:  "I used to read Dickens as a child. The cruelty 
> didn't surprise me, but I did wonder at the moments of uncompensated 
> kindness, which I had never observed outside the pages of fiction. "

Perhaps setting up an echo for the book's last page? "For every wish to
come true would mean that in the known Creation, good unsought and un-
compensated would have evolved somehow, to become at least more access-
ible to us."

> 167:36   " But Mr. V.,  you hate socialists."
> "I hate those climber sons of bitches worse."
>
> climber ???  ice climber?  social climber?  Nouveau riche?

I vote for the last two. The Gilded Age was a particularly good time to 
watch the entertaining show of new money trying its damnedest to look 
old, not least by sneering at still newer money.

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