What does this mean and that mean?

Question

how did fort repose get its name?

what does alas babylon mean for mark and randy?

this came from the story named Alas, Babylon.

Answer 1

Duhh, I dunno - maybe I'll read the book!!

I read it LONG before it got accepted in the USA for your d**n exam questions!!

Fort Repose might mean something to do with a military base set up in a peaceful seeming area?? The retired officer came back and called it that when he set up his 'white' homestead.

Mark and Randy might have crept down to the "Ni**er"/'black' area of the town (it was written when the "N" word was OK) and heard a 'Black' preacher quote from the Book of the Revelation using "Alas, Babylon" repeatedly as a sign of doom and destruction, so they used it as a code for "something bad"?