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 07:20:27 CDT 2010
not to mention Arbenz in Guatemala relating to Benny's abandonment of
Fina to the not so tender mercies of the Playboys and her brother
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Guatemala_CIAHits.html
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
--
"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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