V--2nd, a step-back to Chap 12.

[Michael Bailey]

jochen, as you addressed not only me but Mark and David, I'm copying the list.

I need to reread the story.  My impression was that Siegel slyly set
up the situation, and that accords with a possible reading that Siegel
(aka, the US), having had the responsibility of presiding over the
party (aka International diplomacy) handed to him by the diplomat
(aka, presumably, Great Britain), arranges for a person prone to
derangement to have access to firearms and then leaves...

but I'm sure there are complexities, and such a straight unsmiling
allegory is too crude a tool to use on any story the way I've begun
to...

 It did seem like a dark little number, though, any way you slice it.


On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark and Michael and David:
>
> I don't think M&M is dross. (In my view it's much better than
> "Entropy".) And Siegel doesn't exactly flee a shootout (only 1 person,
> a sick Ojibwa, is using a BAR) that he most definitely didn't
> instigate. I'll give you the last paragraph:
>
> Quietly Siegel strolled back through the kitchen, through the living
> room, taking his time, unnoticed by the crap shooters, opened the
> door, stepped out into the hall and closed the door behind him. He
> walked downstairs, whistling. At the first floor landing, he heard the
> first screams, the pounding of footsteps, the smashing of glass. He
> shrugged. What the hell, stranger things had happened in Washington.
> It was not until he had reached the street that he heard the first
> burst of the BAR fire.
>
> Jochen
>
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