DC-3s

[Adam J. Thornton]

I just saw _Casablanca_ again, and am consequently still drunk, as I have
to drink heavily every time I see the first Rick-Ilse scene, but does
anyone find any significance in the DC-3 Slothrop discovers Richard
Halliburton (Princeton '22, btw) in?  I think it's mentioned in _GR_ that
it's of the same class as the '36 Ford, exempt from the K.H. and a kind,
preterite machine, but I might just be making that up.  In any event it's
also the plane that Victor and Ilse escape in; I think there's something to
this, the Gooney Bird being the Flight of Redemption.  But Laszlo is
clearly Elect.  Is Rick?  Is Louis?

Adam
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