Re: BEg2 ch 31 “tango”

[Mark Kohut]

To me, this misses just about ALL the absolute newness of TRP's historical
connections in *Bleeding Edge..*..He actively satirizes continuing
conspiracy connections throughout this late masterpiece, because he is a
genius observer and this and America were different as he wrote it.
And, to repeat, there are no allusive "clues' in the text at all, unlike
all the other clues we see in this and other novels...

On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 2:47 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>  I failed to do a search that would have turned up the CH 10 reference, so
> good catch, but it seems to me that naming DC is not inherently definitive
> in a work of fiction and Tango could be a more general box for this kind of
> think tank. AEI could probably work as well and had lots of influence on
> the W presidency, probably more in the long run. Argentina does feel
> implied but more as the scene of the macho death and disappearance tango
> initiated by  Nixon /Kissinger, and carried out by the likes of Windust.
> But Reagan did the same dance in Central America and Columbia with then
> DC-based Casey in charge and perhaps initiator. Part of my argument for MI
> is its direct influence on one of the few ideas W  ran on( compassionate
> conservatism) hence Thrubwell’s mention of Tango’s direct influence of the
> president and also the role of Frum as W speech writer and Kristol as key
> voice of the NeoCons. There is also the Chase Manhattan-Bush family
> connection written about by John Loftus. I would accept either or both as a
> good fit. Like Ice, it is practically impossible to make a precise real
> world identification. The political, cultural and technological
> implications look the same to me.
>
>
> .
> > On Jul 16, 2022, at 1:10 AM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > *Joseph Tracy wrote:*
> >
> > *Maxine and Thrubwell’s reference to
> > *>* the thinktankTango is a reference to the Manhattan Institute.*
> >
> >
> > *- That’s as may be; definitely a source of bad ideas, imho…*
> >
> >
> > *But, direct textual reference to the imperialist “tango” (chapter 10)
> > - as a “DC think tank” argues against total acceptance of that
> > attribution *
> >
> > *I think the name is also evocative of a place adversely affected by
> > Friedmanite bandleaders conducting those bad ideas: Argentina (driving
> > Shawn’s Lacanian therapist, Leopoldo, to exile in Manhattan)*
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