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"He would sometimes misremember whether I had children -- this seems improbable, given what I would learn about his amazing feats of memory." p146

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Between races, in relation to self-perception

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"'The one thing worth researching,' he casually replied. 'People.'" (165)

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166

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Kwang and his understanding of family (pg. 146-147)

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"One afternoon I watched him shout at his wife" (145)

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Whats up with Old Johnny Kwang getting all uppity with may?

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What is the whole conflict with Eduardo about?

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"Eduardo was his favorite" (144). Why???

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"Eduardo was his favorite" (144). Why?

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significance of Eduardo having a "convicing accent" (142) given the recurrence of voice?

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"She was white and I was Asian (was this one question or two?)" p.159

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"She was white and I was Asian (was this one question or two?)" p.159

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IF Kwang is Jesus, then would Henry be the Judas Iscariot who betrays him?

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IF Kwang is Jesus, then would Henry be the Judas Iscariot who betrays him?

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"There is something universally chilling about a new plot" (140)

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Henry as a perfect partner and yet he still "fails" as a husband? (161)

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Henry as a perfect partner and yet he still "fails" as a husband? (161)

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"Old artificer, undead old man." (159)

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"I always forget you're not American." "I don't see how." p.163

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"I always forget you're not American." "I don't see how." p.163

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Jack and Henry

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman=Jesus washing feet of his disciples (p. 148).

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman=Jesus washing feet of his disciples (p. 148).

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-cleansing, rite of passage?

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Maybe means that Henry will mess up the Kwang mission

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, one of his disciples

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, one of his disciples

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, one of his disciples

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, one of his disciples

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, 

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Kwang's behavior as Christ: kneels to young woman, 

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"What kept him toiling and working through hi years was that he bore that small man's folly of sometimes seeing himself in terms historical, a necessary evil, as if each apple or turnip or sixpack he was selling would be the very one to catapult him towards a renown he could only with great difficulty imagine for himself" (136).

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"What kept him toiling and working through hi years was that he bore that small man's folly of sometimes seeing himself in terms historical, a necessary evil, as if each apple or turnip or sixpack he was selling would be the very one to catapult him towards a renown he could only with great difficulty imagine for himself" (136).

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"Kwang is like you. You will be an American. You have a flyer with his fine picture and his life story beneath. Show them that. If you tell them the story of their lives they will listen" (143).

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reference to campaign related things as the "war room," "soldiers," "war" etc.  

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reference to campaign related things as the "war room," "soldiers," "war" etc.  

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"Maybe a someone we Koreans were becoming, the latest brand of an American. That was I from the future

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"Maybe a someone we Koreans were becoming, the latest brand of an American. That was I from the future

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Significance of magazine subscriptions? "Redbook, Guns and Ammo, Town and Country, some airline magazines..." (

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Significance of magazine subscriptions? "Redbook, Guns and Ammo, Town and Country, some airline magazines..." (

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"...but I saw that her eyes weren't following the motion of her hand. I thought she had it the way everyone else did, the way she was waiting for his touch on her arm or his voicing of her name. It made me think that she was a little in love with him

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"For you are but ash to their fire. All spent of light." (148)

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reference to campaign as "war room," "soldiers," "war" etc.

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reference to campaign as "war room," "soldiers," "war" etc.

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Significance of Henry's dad applying American cologne in the morning but it wearing off and him becoming Korean again (smell of vegetables and sweat)

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Whats up with Kwang asking Henry about kids all the time? p.146

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Whats up with Kwang asking Henry about kids all the time? p.146

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"Kwang certainly didn't know who I was but he regarded me as if he were seeing a memory." (pg. 134)

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Henry's and Jack's job - one of choice, one of necessity

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Henry's and Jack's job - one of choice, one of necessity

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pg. 165

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"'The scared and the scamming,' he liked to say, 'always give the best cover.'" (157).

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"The last mask" that he would not strip away.

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The magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall." (136

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The magic had all but abandoned his face and his step, the aura was gone, the lilt, and I could smell the animal of him as he walked past my bedroom door in the short hall." (136

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"I have my mother's thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, the unexpected rain," (pg. 135

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"I have my mother's thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, the unexpected rain

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"I myself almost liked how cramped and lifeless it was, so unlike our windy, bright apartment" (157).

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"The last mask"

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The magic had all but abandoned his face 

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The magic had all but abandoned his face 

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Kwang being related to light and having an aura (God imagery?)

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"But then John Kwang was also American."
"For you are but ash to their fire. All spent of light.

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"I can't speak. I sit there, unmoved. For a person like Lelia, who grew up with hollerers and criers, mine is the worst response." (158 )

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"I can't speak. I sit there, unmoved. For a person like Lelia, who grew up with hollerers and criers, mine is the worst response." (158 )

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"Lelia is mostly wonderful..." (158).

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"My necessary invention was John Kwang. This must sound funny, I know. He had always existed in his own right, and he lives at this very moment in a distant land that must seem to him like a great vessel of strangers." (140)

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"I have my mother's

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"I had gone over the trodden middle class ground, moving through the necessary business, how our personalities complimented each other." p159

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Why does John Kwang forget whether or not Henry has children? (146)

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Why does John Kwang forget whether or not Henry has children? (146)

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Were you someone else I'd probably just follow your wishes. I shouldn't tell you that, but I will. Certainly like all of us you have traditional issues to deal with. Parentage, intimacy, trust. (133)

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Jack as Christ figure: " 'Help me Jack.' He waited, opening his arms." (pg. 168)

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Jack as Christ figure: " 'Help me Jack.' He waited, opening his arms." (pg. 168)

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"My necessary invention was John Kwang" p.

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"My necessary invention was John Kwang" p.

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Mitt has psoriasis and Leila would kiss, Henry's dad took very specific care of his hair. Kwang has differenciated

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Again back to that motif of identity and assimilation

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P. 161: "For ten years she hadn't realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover. And the surest testament to the magnificent and horrifying level of my virtuosity was that neither had I" (161).

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P. 161: "For ten years she hadn't realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover. And the surest testament to the magnificent and horrifying level of my virtuosity was that neither had I" (161).

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Judas? Long table-Kwang as Jesus

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Why does Kwang love Eduardo

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Blood; family; memory

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Pictures!

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"And what I saw in him I had not thought to seek, but I will search out now for the long remainder of my days." (141)

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"The men I've been with have this idea to make me over." p159

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More like a sermon. Possible religious imagery?

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143 -- talks about him giving bonuses for people trying to get naturalized
150-153 -- his speech about blacks and Koreans

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For the first few assignments you feel perfectly transparent, as if a man or a women in question can witness every leap of your heart. But in every successive turns you you grow in opacity, a pearl like glow whose surface can repel all manner of heart and light." (133)

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For the first few assignments you feel perfectly transparent, as if a man or a women in question can witness every leap of your heart. But in every successive turns you you grow in opacity, a pearl like glow whose surface can repel all manner of heart and light." (133)

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when Kwang is shot he says "thank you" to Henry in KOREAN - why

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People in the spy company call Hoagland "old fart Lear" (168). 

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People in the spy company call Hoagland "old fart Lear" (168). 

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Lots of things about blues and whites. Maybe in relation to American flag? Red, blue, white? Korean flag is red, white, blue, and black...

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"Through events both arbitrary and conceived it so happened that one of his faces fell away, and then another, and another, until he revealed to me a final level that would not strip off. The last mask. And what I saw in him I had not thought to seek, but will search out now for the long remainder of my days."

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Henry about Kwang

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light & heat

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"I know those legs... 'Grandpa's a bulldog...tender of step than we who would course through him like trickling old rivers'"p137-138

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light & heat

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Why is Jack experiencing rainy weather when it's always sunny where he is?

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Why is Jack experiencing rainy weather when it's always sunny where he is?

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John Kwang and his mom getting sick easily

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John Kwang and his mom getting sick easily

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"For the first few assignments you feel perfectly transparent...But in successive turns you grow an opacity, a pearl-like glow whose surface can repel all manner of heat and light" (133).