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the rebellious zeal of their separate passions inspo/dream inspo/revelation

7.1 When the epiphany came as it tends to near the end of one's life, Bienvenido Senior saw his dead mother in a wreath of light at the foot of his bed and, fearing for his life, followed her out of his house in Daly City, along the silent avenues, and into a grocery market, losing her somewhere am…

—p.342 I Hotel 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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a great man was a cripple in his own mind advice/living

1.1 Ben San Pablo was named after this father, Bienvenido San Pablo, Sr., a strong muscular man of broad shoulders and deep voice, a tough, bold exterior fortified nightly by the golden flame lit within an amber bottle of whiskey. There was no earthly weight that Bienvenido Senior could not lift, n…

—p.337 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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but when it will fail and how, that's

9.10 Karl said, _Marx said that men make their own history but not necessarily as they please. He predicted the inevitability of the failure of the capitalist mode of production, and you yourselves can see the contradictions that make continuous acquisition of the earth's resources and the exploita…

—p.323 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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when did we become Asian American?

7.3 Ben asked, When did we become Asian American?

7.4 Olivia answered, What sort of question is that?

7.5 Karl interrupted. _Wait, it's not a stupid question. Nineteen sixty-six. There's a magazine article about the Japanese American model minority, a kind of American. Before that, Japane…

—p.321 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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Marxism is a way of thinking topic/radicalization

1.4 They met in Kang's apartment on Dwight, blocks from the university, arriving with their copies of Capital, The State and Revolution, WHat Is to be Done?

1.5 Kang opened the discussion. _We're going to take this slowly and build our knowledge. What I realize is that this is a body of knowle…

—p.314 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita