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As part of the novel's churrigueresque structure, UTV draws upon a wide variety of documents and ephemera, which Lowry retained in his possession in Vancouver although many were destroyed in the 1944 burning of his shack at Dollarton. |
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… his final dispatch (sent that morning from the Oficina Principal of the Compañia Telegráfica Mexicana, Esq., San Juan de Letrán e Independencia, México, D. F.) UTV, 94.
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The whole left side of the menu was taken up by a full-length lithographic portrait of a smiling young woman … she was buxom and dowdy, with a quasi-American coiffure, and she was wearing a long, confetti-colored print dress: with one hand she was beckoning roguishly, while with the other she held up a block of ten lottery tickets, on each of which a cowgirl was riding a bucking horse UTV, 329.
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Details of the scrawlings on the menu (front and back) |
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Ti-to |
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Above: Nicaraguan stamp (1902, 20¢ red), featuring Momotombo volcano.