Just think of all the luck you’ll get if you trim down to a comfortable 200.”
What could the author be hinting at with this line at the end?
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- Apr 2021
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(Publication)
I think the only reason for inclusion of more details is because the author realized that not everyone knew the context and true feeling of this experience
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beastly belly
This is probably only changed in the published version for censorship reasons
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silver Uzi in one hand and a magnum of smack in the other, always running ninety miles an hour with no lights and howling Old Testament gibberish at the top of his bleeding lungs
I just thought this was funny
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But in defeat, Oscar managed to create an instant political base for himself in the vast Chicano barrio of East Los Angeles—where even the most conservative of the old-line “Mexican-Americans” were suddenly calling themselves “Chicanos” and getting their first taste of tear gas at “La Raza” demonstrations, which Oscar was quickly learning to use as a fire and brimstone forum to feature himself as the main spokesman
This is another good detail that helps shape Oscar's personality
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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach—but when the alleged Mexican is in fact a profoundly angry Chicano lawyer with no fear at all of anything that walks on less than three legs and a de facto suicidal conviction that he will die at the age of thirty-three—just like Jesus Christ—you have a serious piece of work on your hands. Specially if the bastard is already thirty-three and a half years old with a head full of Sandoz acid, a loaded .357 Magnum in his belt, a hatchet-wielding Chicano bodyguard on his elbow at all times, and a disconcerting habit of projectile-vomiting geysers of pure red blood off the front porch every thirty or forty minutes, or whenever his malignant ulcer can’t handle any more raw tequila.
Detailed characteristics, these were helpful to providing an image of what Oscar may look like and how he acts
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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach—but when the alleged Mexican is in fact a profoundly angry Chicano lawyer with no fear at all of anything that walks on less than three legs and a de facto suicidal conviction that he will die at the age of thirty-three—just like Jesus Christ—you have a serious piece of work on your hands.
Interesting way of describing Oscar's bar fighting prowess
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Huey Newton and a Black Panther style of dealing with the laws and courts of America.
From what I can tell, Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party were all for helping the less fortunate. Does this mean Oscar wanted to do good?
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monument
What is the purpose of describing Oscar as a monument? Was it because he resembled a monument in the sense that he was not meant to be messed with?
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Res Ipsa Loquitor
What is the author saying with Res Ipsa Loquitor (accidents are a direct result of negligence)? Perhaps Oscar's death was an accident resulting directly from his wild and possibly ignorant nature?
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many people feared him.…
Was he feared because he was different?
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