Traveling and Receptions and Stuff

"'We have got the loveliest hotel,' Mike said. 'I think it's a brothel!'"

I'm confused. Such is irony, I am inclined to believe. In this case, it would be irony of the verbal variety. He's making a little joke, I think. On a related note, if you've ever been confused about what is and is not ironic, you should check out this link.

Also, not to beat a dead horse, but I think the diction in this novel is its most interesting facet. If I were to preface a statement of mild importance with "I say," today, somebody would mock me relentlessly. Also again, I don't know what it means to be "a little tight." This is why I prefer reading Harry Potter relentlessly to actually picking up much that's new; I know what all of the words mean, and it makes me feel smart because that's a lot of words, even if I have recently discovered that the local library shelves them with the juvenile books.

I believe there is an allusion to the Ku Klux Klan on page 93. "'It's enough to make a man join the Klan,' Bill said." I don't trust that Bill character. He says it because he's irritated with the service on the train and believes it to be the product of his religious beliefs--Protestantism. This angers him, but joining the Klan seems a rather non sequitur course of action. It's like he's saying the Catholics are being mean to him, so he's going to join a gang of white supremacists, of whom many are probably Catholic, and secretly kill everybody who's black, gay, Jewish, or otherwise different. I think that's probably enough for now.