THE HUNT FOR DESDEMONA ( Missing Variables Ch.7)
"Open your books to page 288." That's how Marika's senior year began at Pellico High on that Wednesday morning, with a critique of bourgeois economics and the problematics of alienation. First period: PHILOSOPHY!... An icy shower after the warm summer!



"Vendramini!" The teacher tried to get her attention, while Gloria poked her from behind to wake her up. "Hey, Marika!" Once again she would be sitting behind her for an entire year. "You awake?" The teacher raised his eyes to the heavens, resigned and puffing out his cheeks. "Vendramini, would you please begin reading from page 296?"
"Yes." Marika hurriedly flipped through the pages of her book. "OK, I found it."
"About time," the teacher said, bored and impatient and thumping his fingers against his desk. "Come on now, don't be shy!"
"For Marx, unlike Hegel and Feuerbach, alienation was a concrete fact of a socio-economic nature, which can only be overcome by...." And while her eyes scrolled through the philosophy book, the only image that occupied her mind was that of Matteo living it up at the beach with a steady diet of B-grade television actresses and movie extras, drinking fruit-flavored cocktails straight from their opened lips." [from Ch.17 ECLIPSED HEARTS]


Let's go back to Ch. 7, after Mardi Gras...




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