Compras Nikon Bluetooth |
This collection of about a dozen stories begins with a series of loosely-related pieces describing Spain's youthful, late '50's experience as a motorcycle gang member, followed by two mid-'80's strips about his experience at the Democratic Convention protests in 1968, and a fictionalized account of his then-girlfriend's journalistic investigation of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986. This is followed by an unrelated series of propagandistic historical vignettes celebrating radicalism. The most interesting pieces are a Robert Crumb-inspired self-examination and the final strip, in which Spain discusses his artistic inspiration.
Q: What's the difference betweeen USL and the Graf Zeppelin?
A: The Graf Zeppelin represented cutting edge technology for its time.
... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter.
"I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers
words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him.
He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see
them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time.
Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he
knows them in the naming.
-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"
