NYC: Kelleher and de Blasio

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Maybe it's just a mixture of coincidence and personal ignorance, but 
when I read about de Blasio and his "Tale of the Two Cities" I had to 
think of March Kelleher and her "commencement speech" at Kugelblitz 
which "turns out to be a parable nobody is supposed to get" (p. 112). 
The narration's dualistic structure, the polarization of the poor on the 
one and the powerful on the other side.

"Who's this old lady? What does she think she's been finding out all 
these years? Who is this 'ruler' she's refusing to be bought off by? And 
what's this 'work' he was doing in secret? Suppose 'the ruler' isn't a 
person at all but a soulless force that though it cannot ennoble, it 
does entitle, which, in the city-nation we speak of, is always more than 
enough?" (p. 114)

http://www.billdeblasio.com/issues/

/"In so many ways, New York has become a Tale of Two Cities.

Nearly 400,000 millionaires call New York home, while nearly half of our 
neighbors live at or near the poverty line. Our middle class isn’t just 
shrinking; it’s in danger of vanishing altogether."

Did Pynchon vote for de Blasio?

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