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"Do you remember when we used to live in the Village, the way I used to go off to work... The way I used to give you the raised left fist when I left the apartment, the Black Power salute?"

I revealed that I've finished Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," which some of you have been reading along with me, and maybe you've finished it too. I have a few more quotes I want to serve up, first this bit from 94% of the way through the book (which is something that connects to the ending). Here, Sherman McCoy makes a desperate attempt to reconnect with his wife, Judy:

“Do you remember when we used to live in the Village, the way I used to go off to work?”

“The way you used to go off to work?”

“When I first started working for Pierce & Pierce? The way I used to give you the raised left fist when I left the apartment, the Black Power salute?”

“Yes, I remember.”

“You remember why?”

“I guess so.”

“It was supposed to say that yes, I was going to work on Wall Street, but my heart and soul would never belong to it. I would use it and rebel and break with it. You remember all that?”

Judy said nothing.

“I know it didn’t work out that way,” he went on, “but I remember what a lovely feeling it was. Don’t you?”

In the very end of the book, the Epilogue, we get a fictional article in The New York Times, telling us what's happened to McCoy in the year since the events we've been reading about, and here we see a recurrence of the Black Power salute:

Mrs. McCoy and her daughter reportedly have moved to the Midwest, but Mrs. McCoy was in the spectator section of the courtroom yesterday, apparently unrecognized by the noisy group of demonstrators, black and white, who occupied most of the seats. At one point, Mr. McCoy looked toward his wife, smiled slightly, and raised his left hand in a clenched-fist salute. The meaning of this gesture was unclear. Mrs. McCoy refused to speak to reporters.

A few thoughts:

1. I think it's pretty clear that McCoy is going to be convicted of manslaughter in this new trial. He gestures to his wife, who's not so estranged that she doesn't sit among the spectators to support him.

2. McCoy has become a new man over the course of his ordeal, but he's also returned to the old man that he was once was, the young man who lived in the Village and gave his wife the Black Power salute as he left in the morning to go work at his Wall Street job.

3. What did the Black Power salute mean to him (and to her)? We could decide that it meant what he said it meant: "I was going to work on Wall Street, but my heart and soul would never belong to it. I would use it and rebel and break with it"? Did it mean the same thing at that later point? If so, then he was fulfilling his stated destiny, rebelling and breaking with Wall Street. Then the salute seems to mean that he is the master of his fate, even though outwardly, government holds the power and is about to crush him.

4. How dare this privileged white man adopt the salute that belongs to black people — especially as he's accused of killing a black person and driving away and not reporting it (as if black lives don't matter)! Or was the salute a misappropriation in the old days, back in the Village, but not now, as he's lost all his privilege and caught in the government's machine?

5. What life awaits Mrs. McCoy, out there in the Midwest? I think she'll do just fine, in part because of the gesture, the meaning of which was unclear to the NYT, but it was clear to her. She's gone back home to Wisconsin.

6. Let's also talk, more generally, about the fascination white Americans have with the idea of ourselves as rebels and the delusion that what we are doing is somehow not really what we are and our "heart and soul" are really out there in some other life, one that we're not living at all.

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