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 But here was this hall full of Americans, no question, even the foreign-born, if you thought about where they had come from and what they must've been hoping to find over here and so forth, American in their prayers anyway, and maybe a few hadn't shaved for a while, but it was hard to see how any fit the bearded, wild-eyed, bomb-rolling Red description too close, in fact give them a good night's sleep and a square meal or two, and even a veteran detective'd have a hard time telling the difference from regular Americans.

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We see how Lew has simply integrated the bias of the capitalist system when he still, at the end of his observation of how human and American the people fighting for workers' rights seem, regards them as separate from "regular Americans." Just what is a "regular American" if not someone who simply wants to earn their fair share for their labor so that they can provide food and safety and a future for themselves and their family? Who are the "regular Americans" if not these people trying to make America a better place, not just for themselves, but for all of those who would come to its shores in search of a better life? Does Lew consider only people who own a home "regular Americans"? Only people who have a certain amount of money in the bank? Only people who can buy and sell other poorer, less fortunate, people? Who are these "regular Americans"?
    If you ask the modern media, I'm pretty sure they'd say "regular Americans" are white people living in the heartland of America (and I mean the neutral definition of "heartland" which means "the center of the United States" and not the part of the definition that says a "heartland" is the most important part of a region. Most people, especially reporters, don't seem to understand that those two definitions aren't one and the same. But pretty convenient for those living in the middle of the country, isn't it? Maybe the West Coast should craft a new definition of West Coast that also means "the smartest and biggest dicked part of the country").

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 Nate Privett, everybody else at W.C.I., needless to say most of the Agency's clients, none had too good of a word to say about the labor unions, let alone Anarchists of any stripe, that's if they even saw a difference.

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Come on, Pynchon. I already covered all of this while carefully considering all of your other sentences one at a time! I guess this is for the readers Pynchon knows aren't paying particularly close attention. Maybe this means I'll be able to write less and less about every sentence as the book goes on because I'll already have anticipated every character's reaction to every possible situation in which they might find themselves! I bet I'll have about seven thousand blog entries where the only thing I type after the asterisk break is "Grandmaster Literature Reader!"

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 "Anarchy never sleeps, son. They're meeting right down the El line a couple-three stops, and you might want to take a look in. Even get educated, maybe."

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"Anarchy"
We all remember this is just the capitalist synonym for "unionizing."

"the El line"
Being from the West Coast, there was an awful lot of aging before I learned Chicago's "El" train was an elevated train and not the "L" train. I also didn't know much about Judaism!

"might want to take a look in. Even get educated"
So Nate wants Lew to infiltrate a Union meeting (possibly where they might be planning some anarchy! You've got to get the capitalists' attention somehow!). The "even get educated" bit seems like some good foreshadowing. Nate wants Lew to learn how terrible these anarchists are. But Lew will probably become "educated" on exactly what's going on and how little "anarchy" is actually taking place. These people are blowing up cops with meaning and purpose! It isn't just a bunch of nihilistic fun!

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 "Ironworkers' Union," he nodded. "After enough of 'em, a man begins to develop an ear."

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The Iron Workers Union wasn't founded until 1896. So Nate Privett doesn't have as good an ear as he thinks he does. Or maybe it's even better and he can hear future bombings? Being that Chicago was a burgeoning battleground for unions and workers' rights, and because it was the first place to truly begin building iron and steel buildings (due to a new ordnance prohibiting wooden buildings in downtown Chicago after the Great Fire in 1871), a movement among ironworkers had begun and maybe they were calling themselves the "Ironworkers' Union" before the actual Iron Workers Union that was formed in 1896 and exists today.
    The essence of Nate's statement is that workers from different unions and associations, all being used and bled dry by employers, were using bombs in their fight for 8 hour days, health & safety, and living wages. And because they all made their own bombs, and bombings were so frequent, Nate now had an ear for it.
    Mostly it just sounds to me like Nate is playing up the chaos because he's one of those jerks definitely on the side of the employers and big business. I mean, it's not like he's going to make any money off of immigrant workers barely being paid enough to take care of their families.