Kent is doubling the Double Flower, beforehand. Oddly it's all been done before, in firewater:
"?LE GUSTA ESTA JARDIN?
?QUE ES SUYO?
!EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!
The Consul stared back at the black words on the sign without moving. You like this garden? Why is it yours? We evict those who destroy! Simple words, simple and terrible words, words which one took to the very bottom of one's being, words which, perhaps a final judgement on one, where nevertheless unproductive of any motion whatsoever; unless a kind of colourless, cold, white agony, an agony as chill as that iced mescal drunk in the Hotel Canada on the morning of Yvonne's departure."
[triply-shakey ironies]
Note the recurrence of the Ferris Wheel in Under the Volcano. Lowry trumps Kinbote (burnt-out/soused) in a beach shack in Vancouver.
The debate in Congress is about THE AGGRESSOR (will it be Imperator Bush, burning with position papers TO DESTROY?)
Henry
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