AtD p 850 "a dense, prolonged shower of glass fragments"

[Mark Kohut]

Check definitions on the p-wiki...
   
  p. 850 "message with Gennaro"....Saint Januarius, or San Gennaro, bishop of Benevento, is a saint and martyr in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. 
   
  p.850  I do not think this is relevant here---every association is not relevant!---but one never knows..... perhaps the once-famous "message to garcia" by Elbert Hubbard 1899 is a buried allusion?..(but why didn't TRP write Garcia rather than Gennaro? Cause Reef is in Europe?:  http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm
   
  Nice....full of tourists. Resort city---The Riviera. An:"The Italian Irredentists considered Nice one of their main nationalistic requests."See 'mad irredentist" from "V." and irredentism in AtD.
"The dawn of the 20th century was the arrival of a modern mode of transport. In 1900, the Tramway de Nice electrified its horse drawn tramway and spread its network to Menton and Cagnes--Mer, equipping the city of a modern mode of transport."
   
  Flaco: "I've gotten to where I like these cafes, all this to-and-fro of the city life............WHEN
  KABOOM!                        "for any but angels of destruction to read."
   
  As written, i am reminded of the fall of a crystal palace, in miniature, so to speak. GR in lower outdoor case, also so to speak.
   
  TRP shows such bombing is so indiscriminate even the fellow-travelers--"let's trust in professional courtesy"----are almost killed. 
   
    p851  heliograph     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph
   
   

   
   
   
   
   

        
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