M & D about that joke.

[Mark Kohut]

Glossing because Jochen. ( I like to tease a little
time before posting my every gloss. Narrative tension
in my own mind at least)


Chinaman---immigrant America, the constant.
Jesuit----parsing of Religion/Bible, THAT enduring strain
Corsican---the entrepreneurial conqueror; the fighter. That.

And to Bath: as Huck Finn, American boy, said,Aunt Sally wanted
to civilize him and he lit out for the territory. Bath, where Jane Austen,
wrote about polite, civilized society, 'manners' as moral choices all the way
down. The future America?

And, of course, we never get a punchline because always happening in
Parallax America.
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