If Obama's friend nicely fills the Circe role, then she is almost surely grounded in the real-life person of Diana Oughton, Ayers' lover who was killed in a 1970 Greenwich Village bomb factory blast. Ayers was obsessed with Oughton. In Fugitive Days, he fixes on her in ways that had to discomfit the woman that he eventually married, their fellow traveler in the Weather Underground, Bernardine Dohrn.I wonder if that's why Bill Ayers talked to me?:)
Physically, the woman of Obama's memory, with her "dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes," evokes images of Oughton.
As her FBI files attest, Oughton had brown hair and green eyes. The two women share similar family backgrounds as well. In fact, they seem to have grown up on the very same estate.Fascinating.
According to a Time Magazine article written soon after her death, Oughton "brought Bill Ayers and other radicals" to the family homestead in Dwight, Illinois.
Here's more about the historic home.
P.S. At least Michelle can't be jealous of Barack's imaginary friend.
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2 comments:
I wonder how that tax return of Barack and Michelle's sat with Mr. Ayers. The most successful thing Ayers has ever written and he can't claim it. What a pity.
Yeah. He must be gnashing his teeth.
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