V-2nd - Group Read - Schedule

[alice wellintown]

In connection with the other posts about Labor, I'll mention that the
allusions to IWW and Joe Hill, now profane accolades tossed in jest at
the man who saves the girl in trouble by taking up a collection to
send her to Cuba to have an abortion clearly places Labor History at a
distance from the Whole Sick Crew, and from the pretender-organizer of
sewer patrol bums we met earlier. The implied author's norms are
clear: the Sick Crew can not understand or connect with the Labor
Movement because they have nothing to win and much much too much to
lose. Even Bob Dylan figured that out when the answer blowing in the
wind grew younger than that now. That the author continues,
unequivocally, in prose, and in fiction, to write about American Labor
or History, and how conflicts within, amongst, and against Unions
shaped our nation and the current state of affairs is worthy of
consideration.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and
South.  It is not down on any map; true places never are.