V2nd - Chapter 10, au revoir, hello East Orange?
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 13:29:49 CST 2010
by a commodious vicus of recirculation, if my slide rule calculates
correctly, we've spent 2 fruitful weeks discussing Chapter 10, and
thank you to Laura for timely and pertinent commentary (and to others,
you know who you are)
I think the confessional theme is carried forward in Chapter 12, The
Confessions of Fausto Maijstral
has he struck a Faustian bargain? He seems to think he's a very
changed man. Do his 3 phases represent a Hegelian progression, or
perhaps the 3 states of matter: solid liquid and gas?
Once again we leave Nueva York and environs and the 1950s, like
Peabody and Sherman and the Wayback Machine...
I can hardly wait!
"This way to the museyroom. Mind your hats goin' in" (JJ, FW: "this is
the big wide harse of Willingdone")
--
"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith
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