Atdtda23: [44.3i] Ready to roll, 639

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Sun Dec 2 09:47:43 CST 2007


[639.26-28] Out in the front hall, concealed by giant pots full of orchids,
was an array of steamer trunks, packed and ready to roll.

Cf. on 372:

Everybody at the Deux Especes was waiting for his own particular
outlaw-friendly ship, of which there were several out on the sea-lanes at
any given moment ... as if there had once been a joyous mythical time of
American Anarchism, now facing its last days after the Anarchist Czolgosz
had assassinated McKinley--everywhere it was run, Anarchist run, the nation
allowing itself to lapse into another cycle of Red Scare delusion as it had
done back in the '70s in reaction to the Paris Commune.




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