atdtda:31 pg 890 - Wolfe Tone

[Bekah]

The trio must be traveling again because ...

890.3    "One day in Monte Carlo..."

**  Monte Carlo  is several hundred miles around the Mediterranean  
from Bagni di Lucca -  on the Mediterranean near the Italian border  
with France.

I presume they managed to get the francs together to take the train  
for this 211 mile trip up past Genoa and  around the Mediterranean.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

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890.3-6  "...  who should show up but Reef's old New Orleans  
Anarchist bunkmate Wolfe Tone O'Rooney..."

* O'Rooney is an historical character of the 18th century - an Irish  
Republican involved with independence from Britain,  involved in the  
Irish Rebellion of 1798, sentenced to death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_Wolfe_Tone

The fictional O'Rooney was seen earlier (pgs 370 - 373 and 642)  in  
New Orleans headed to Mexico for the revolution which finally  
occurred in 1910.

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890.6   "... on his way to Barcelona which was all about to explode,  
as it had been doing periodically, with Anarchist unruliness."

* Barcelona -
Anarchism in Spain:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain

Two events in 1909 bolstered support for another general strike in  
Barcelona. A textile factory was shut down, with 800 workers fired.  
Across the industry, wages were being cut. Workers, even outside the  
textile industry, began to plan for a general strike. At around the  
same time, the government announced that military reserves would be  
called up to fight in
In Morocco  tribesmen were skirmishing with Spanish troops. The  
reservists, mostly workingmen, were not keen to risk their lives or  
kill others to protect what they characterised as the interests of  
Spanish capitalists (the fighting was blocking routes to mines and  
slowing business).  Anti-war rallies sprang up across the country,  
and talk of a general strike could be heard.

The strike began in Barcelona on July 26,  a few weeks after the call  
for reserves was made. It quickly developed into a widespread uprising

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragic_Week
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889.09  O'Rooney - "... we need you safe and well. Your fate is not  
to be in the línea del fuego"
"línea del fuego"   Spanish:  line of (the) fire. This may be a naive  
translation of "firing line" or "line of fire" (note the satisfying  
ambiguity); línea de tiro seems to be preferred.
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php? 
title=ATD_864-891#Page_890

Irrelevantly:  Is this Castillian Spanish?
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890.13   "Wolfe Tone explained then that, terrible as it might turn  
out for the Anarchist cause, Barcelona was only a sideshow.   
'Governments are about to fuck things up for everybody, make life  
more unlivable than Brother Bakunin ever imagined.  Something truly  
terrible is in the works.' "

** Tensions were building all over Europe during this time -  
alliances were being forged and war plans made - uprisings quelled.   
All was small but for those with a bit of paranoia...    This was the  
situation in 1909:
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/ww1/1909.html

The outcome was that the great powers feared anarchism so much

"Brother Bakunin"      recruited Italians, Frenchmen, Scandinavians,  
and Slavs into the International Brotherhood, also called the  
Alliance of Revolutionary Socialists.
  "... the passion for destruction is a creative passion"  (The  
Reaction in Germany - 1842)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Bakunin/ 
bakuninHorowitz.htm

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890.16  But Reef didn't argue.  Which should've surprised him more  
than it did.
He's been co-opted by the $$$ and the sex of European decadence.

Bekah



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