M & D Group Read (cont.)

[Mark Kohut]

A Chinaman, a Jesuit and a Corsican....etc.

Never finished. I offer this 'reading'.

Jesuit. The spying network in M & D, as also the embodied conspiracy
in American History notion, but also
an invasion of privacy problem (at least) in history, in the history of
America
but also Jesuitical, the common stereotype of able to
find rationalizations for whatever one argues, wants to believe, quite a
pattern in the old and new world of religious freedom NOT, where justifying
one's own against all other religions is always a reality.

a Corsican. in M &D (and in the stereotype again), an adventurer. But also,
having
read part of an old (1962 Twayne's Authors (!)) trot through Churchill's
writings, I learn
what I think I learned here in a previous read but now know was extensive
at one time.
 Napoleon was called the Corsican in much common talk and in books. ( A
hero of Churchill's, as one might expect, that :Hero
of the Empire" himself).Take your Napoleon associations
and apply them to America's adventurous spirit--America's self-chosen,
self-justifying Empire
"adventures", much later in history than M & D's American time but not, of
course, England's.

And a Chinaman. The word applied to the many immigrants who came and built
the infrastructure of America with their
hard exploited work. Also, as TRP does, another statement of the East's
influence on the US.?
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