VL-Hub's monologue

rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 18:52:47 CDT 2009


doesn't Webb Traverse's ghost  say about the same in one of those
dream sequences?

rich

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:36 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> (p. 288-291):  This is one of the high points of the book, in my opinion.  Hub's monologue/diatribe on IATSE vs. CSU captures the essence of everything that went wrong with the American labor movement, bringing it to its current sorry state.  His culminating words:
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> "'...I let the world slip away, made my shameful peace, joined the IA, retired soon's I could, sold off my only real fortune -- my precious anger -- for a lot of got-dam shadows.'"
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> speak not only to the dissolution of the labor movement, but to the fizzling of the "spirit" of the 60s.
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> Laura
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