V-2nd. Some Questions the Answers to Which May Tell us Something?

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 27 09:14:45 CDT 2010



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Let's see. Da Conho, from Brazil, salad maker, confused Zionist who "wants to kill Arabs" 
in Israel with his yibble yibble gun.....loses his machine gun and ....

"lorn and drained-nervous" loses his job.
 
lorn
    1.  
lorn adj : pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment; ... Definition: lorn. Search dictionary for. Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 ...
dictionary.die.net/lorn- Cached- Similar
    2. lorn - definition of lorn by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ... 
[Middle English, from Old English -loren, past participle of -l osan, to lose (as in forl osan, to lose); see leu- in Indo-European roots.] ...
 
Drained-nervous....another of those hyphenated singular concept phrases....from, like, turn of the nineteenth century or earlier......
maybe what came to be called a "nervous breakdown"..............I bet it is in Education of Henry Adams, you can look it up!
 
So Q: TRP makes a statement on the feelings of empowerment of (some) Jews in these years shortly after the establishment of the 
State of Israel? And also, as he can do, it is a mini-anti-warrior Catch-22-like happening???
 
Both/And...........?
 
Neither?



      



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