Desert Places

[Stephen Roe]

Also consider "Lawrence of Arabia"  who loved the desert because it was so clean.  
Perhaps the Arabian desert contrasted to the open rural spaces in his native England 
which he and Dixon shared a dislike.

Steve Roe

On Friday, May 23, 1997 09:35, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU [SMTP:LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU] wrote:
> 
> 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)