Cindy said:
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- Like, are y leaving clues? Is this a puzzle? And how come you're feeding us this story bit by bit?
- Maybe Milly is really trying to get out of a stifling job in a world where you have to lie and steal just to get by. Not to mention sell yourself in more ways than one. She's repelled by it, repulsed; the so-called real world has sent her over the edge and everything we're reading is just the stuff of her bitter nightmares, what cynical dreams are made of. Politics in the US is a landscape of soundbites. Where are the smart idealists applying first-class minds to actual problems? Democracy? More like a monied aristocracy. On the other hand, who are we kidding. It's just a book, right? HRC will come galloping to the rescue. Or Obamamania will come save us all. And Milly will fade to smoke and dust, a wavy curtain of dreams and illusion.
- Jodi, too true. And the spies are probably in universities or business, which gives them more freedom than politics. I see the Chinese trusting only their own, so Obama, Clinton and Mc aren't Manchurian candidates. But come on now, do you really think Chinese culture trains people to think for themselves? People are partly products of where they're from. Lots of obedient and attentive gnomes, but not much creativity. Of course innovation may be overrated. What's really poking Milly in the novel here? Is she a China lover?
