The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?

[Michael Bailey]

 Carvill John wrote:
>
> Your argument is interesting, for its frshness of perspective. I'm not sure I 100% get what you're saying, but surely you can't deny the presence in ATD of *some degree* of criticism of Dubya Bush and his cohorts?
>


there might be
some (or even much) implied criticism of current politicos,
but it is accomplished by abstracting a characteristic and applying it
to fictional characters
which have a place in AtD's different world.  a mirror for magistrates...
If the shoe fits, & so forth.

Bush, Nixon and Reagan (or Lyndon "Escalation" Johnson, Harry "A-Bomb" Truman,
or Woodrow "he kept us out of war" Wilson either) didn't invent perfidy.

It is kind of surprising, though,
if you know even as little history as I do, that people are surprised that power
tends to corrupt.  And it is kind of disconcerting when people, upon
seeing a picture
of perfidy, tend to think first of our current, or recent, leaders...
But we shouldn't allow that immediate association, if we have one,
to disturb our immersion in the world of the novel, should we?  It may
enrich it,
but it shouldn't substitute for it...



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