Desert Places

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Max mentions Mason 
"a vast, ominous, empty prairie.  And then there are                
the mysterious rural waste spaces of Dixon's youth, of which he is so
terrified, and indeed the mysterious rural spaces of W.A.S.T.E., in which
black riders attack passing mail coaches."


Go back to "Low-Lands" for the origin of the image.  (I've been intrigued by
the contrast between TRP and Hitchcock, who claimed that a flat open space
was his idea safe place because he could see for mile around--except that
in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, in the flatest of cornfields, there'
s a cropduster, dusting crops where there ain't no crops!)

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)