Cultural References
The novel makes several references to both contemporary political and popular culture. Both Republican presidents George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan are castigated in the narrative, while Bobby Kennedy and the Vietnam War are referred to as representing the cushy Democratic era. In Chapter 24, the Senator mentions the 1991 Gulf War. In terms of popular culture, the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby plays on the radio in Chapter 9, paralleling the prosody of the novella. The Education of Henry Adams is quoted in Chapter 32.
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
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