Atdtda22: [43.4i] Belonging, 624

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Wed Nov 21 23:04:13 CST 2007


[624.22-23] "... and 'Traverse', what sort of name ... you are not also
Hebraic, by any chance?"

Cf. Colfax on 318: "I say Kit, I mean you might as well be a Jew, you know."


[624.29-31] "... alarmed, as I observe, strangely, you are not. By the
millions now into your own country they are streaming ..."

The 'relationship' between anarchism and immigration is established in the
first chapter, when Lindsay describes "the inexorably rising tide of World
Anarchism, to be found peculiarly rampant, in fact, at our current
destination ..." (6).

Cf. Lew's take on 50: "There was a kind of general assumption around the
shop that labouring men were all more or less evil, surely misguided, and
not quite American, maybe not quite human. But here was this hall full of
Americans, no question, even the foreign-born ..."





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