ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[Mark Kohut]

Isn't this a kind of statement by TRP that The White City, the whole Columbian Exhibition---America's whole proclamation of its own ideals......was a "dayllit fiction" compared to what life was really like in America then? 

Monte Davis <monte.davis at bms.com> wrote:  David Morris wrote:   
The evidence that the CoC exist in the "real" world of AtD is in their 
interaction with characters on the ground in Chicago and elsewhere 
(Merle, Dahly, Lew, etc.).
This needs to be qualified with that line on p. 36:"...the great national 
celebration possessed the exact degree of fictitiousness to permit 
the boys access and agency.  The harsh nonfictional world waited outside the 
White City’s limits..."

So yes, there's interaction, but only under (un)certain circumstances.


 
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