Ferlinghetti wondered if the gathering “might be exaggerating Jack’s Quebecoisness too much,” and noted that one of the great problems for all immigrant Americans is “the fantastic speed” with which they lose their roots.

Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?

'There might be,' he reported, 'a myllion of gold secretly conveyed aboard.'

Chad always carries a gun for his own security.