V-2nd. Sing that lifeline song

[Mark Kohut]

p. 26 An hilarious compacted bit o wit, imho. Has taken me all these readings to, maybe, see it and laugh my ass off. 
 
"Dewey Gland. Sing them that Algerian pacifist song. Dewey, now astride a lifeline on the bridge, gave a bass string intro and began to sing Blue Suede Shoes, after Elvis Presley."

What Eliot said of the 'metaphysical poets", compressing their meaningful analogies into surprising metaphors..

Blue Suede Shoes as a pacifist song. Sung by the artist figure astride a lifeline......With TRP I would say he means that.................

And "Algerian pacifist song".....Algeria, colony fought over like few......The Algerian War going on at the time of V. Independence 1962.
Algeria, the situation, which split Sartre and Camus irrevocably and other intellectuals of the time.............................
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria