Back to Against the Day, p 989

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 27 06:18:56 CDT 2013


"it's that Bourgeois Fever creepin up on you," Frank tells Ewball..... 
Anyone heard the phrase before? (I think from Frank's perspective we know what it means)
but isn't it usually applied in reverse?...revolutionary Fever.....(fervor).........from a revolutionary
nomad's perspective, going bourgeois is also like a fever?....

An historian using Foucalt in the title has the phrase..."the fever of bourgeois decency' applied to
the Victorian era......
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