I'm not trying to defend this stuff (1979? Are you sure?), but I don't have a problem with parsing that sentenmce: I read the bit after the em dash as being the 'romantic theme' which he will conjure up, and in apposition to that phrase.
What I can't tell is whether I'm meant to read this as self-deprecating ("unabashed", that "romantic theme", "a self-elected hero") or not (the positioning of that "triumphant pennant"). How very odd.
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Date: 2010-11-09 12:48 pm (UTC)What I can't tell is whether I'm meant to read this as self-deprecating ("unabashed", that "romantic theme", "a self-elected hero") or not (the positioning of that "triumphant pennant"). How very odd.