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Tony is a mafia boss who hires Manny Di Presso to help with his dirty business but sends goons after him when Di Presso cannot loan him money. According to Di Presso, one of Tony’s business ventures involved digging up American soldiers’ bones from the Lago di Pietà and selling them to the Beaconsfield cigarettes company. Tony never got paid for these bones, so he wants to sue Pierce Inverarity’s estate, although Metzger tells Di Presso that Inverarity only owned the filter technology, not the actual Beaconsfield corporation.
Tony Jaguar Quotes in The Crying of Lot 49
The The Crying of Lot 49 quotes below are all either spoken by Tony Jaguar or refer to Tony Jaguar. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes
“You came to talk about the play,” he said. “Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn’t literature, it doesn’t mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare.”
“Who was he?” she said.
“Who was Shakespeare. It was a long time ago.”
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Tony Jaguar Character Timeline in The Crying of Lot 49
The timeline below shows where the character Tony Jaguar appears in The Crying of Lot 49. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...up onto the social hall’s roof to have a picnic. Then, Di Presso explains that Tony Jaguar , his client in the mafia, is after him because he is broke and cannot...
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...their bodies in the lake. Thinking he could get someone to pay for the bones, Tony Jaguar had them dug up and sent to the United States, where they ended up in...
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