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Self Reflexiveness In America

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As Campanon notes, America is a simulation of Self 's self-reflexiveness (91) and it serves as a projection of Self’s insatiable desire: ‘I have always understood that America is the land of opportunity. Vigorously mongrel, America is a land with success in its ozone, a new world for the go-getters and new-boomers, a land where fotune grins and makes the triple-ring sign’ (ibid. 207). On this dreamland, ‘all was ocean brightness: against the flat blue sky the clouds had been sketched by an impressively swift and confident hand’ (ibid. 19) and guys are bawling ‘I want my money and I want it now!’(ibid.6). In contrast, London, the golem of Europe, is personified as ‘an old man with bad breath’ (ibid. 85) and whose sky, conversely, is depicted
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