Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera

[Dave Monroe]

"At this point the founding figure enters the scene:
Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera, perhaps a
madman, perhaps an honest rebel, according to some
only a con artist...." (Lot 49, Ch. 6, p. 159)

"Calavera," as J. Kerry Grant notes (Companion, p.
127), is Spanish for "skull."  "Another reminder of
the potentially threatening nature of the Tristero"
(ibid.).   Note that the Tristero is multivalently
"threatening," to everyone from the state (and thus
presumably Church) sanctioned Thurn and Taxis postal
system, to the nigh-unto-heretically extremist "most
pure Puritans" (and be wary of course of any discourse
of "purity," here or elsewhere), the Scurvhamites, and
then some.  But note also, again, a memento mori ...

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To invoke the anamorphic magic eye ...  





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