-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 3, 2007 7:18 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Talented Mr.
Ripley
>
>Terrill wrote:
>
>He's a clever, amoral, American capitalist trying
to
>make it in Europe. You know, like McDonalds
and
>Starbucks.
>
>**************
>Well, I'll be darned. And I thought it was a
Marxist
>allegory, with Ripley rising up in
proletariat
>splendor and justly redistributing
Greenleaf's
>bourgeois wealth, stolen from the sweat of
the
>workers' brow. Where the wealth gets redistributed
to
>seems fairly accurate historically speaking,
too.
>
>miker
>
Miker,
I like your take, too. Very good justification and
rationalization of actions at work here.
(I know the R in your last name stands for Robison, but could
it have actually started out, many years ago, as something
else? Ripley perhaps?)
TL
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