V-2nd - Chap 8 / I have really never read this book this closely before
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 07:17:46 CDT 2010
Onnnnnnnnnnnnn the other hand....
The Bay of Pigs, which was available for scrutiny before V. went to
press, could conceivably ummm relate to Esther's Havana abortion,
which see, and Benny not learning a damn thing could relate to
Rachel's tractor beam indeed being real and sincere, and she and her
imperatives not at all to blame for Benny retracing imperialistic
steps
you all probably got all this long ago, so I will start more awake-ly
and less Oneirically cakewalking thru Chapter 8 now (although by "now"
I do mean in a short while)
> A person might really think that American colonialism was subsiding
> and propose strategies for coping with that eventuality, which is
> something I feel is alive within V., but can't articulate
> coherently (obviously)
>
> Too many libraries? That's an oxymoron or something, isn't it?
>
--
"I have left my book,
I have left my room,
For I heard your voice
singing through the gloom" - James Joyce
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