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Since Greene would juggle the same motifs for the rest of his life--the triangles, the bonds between cuckolds and lovers, the self-sacrificing renunciations, the use of birthmarks to indicate spiritual blight, the insistent pull of Catholicism--Jordan's interpolation seems not an impertinence but the highest form of respect.
But for others he's vital link with a tradition of impertinence dating back to dada in general and Duchamp's urinal in particular.
To old San Franciscans, people whose hands have shaken the hands of those who came in the Gold Rush, the move is an act of lèse-majesté, an impertinence rivaling only that of Billy Ralston, who chose to go for a refreshing swim in the harbor one day in 1875 when his mighty Bank of California was crashing, rather than stay at the office.
The result is not a fugue but an impertinence.