ATD: Re: AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[pynchonoid]

Mackin: 
> Also, turning the tables on an evil assailant is a
> common western  
> motif--executed here in highly unstandard fashion


Yeah, by offering hands-on physical healing instead of
fisticuffs or gunplay, which might be seen as 
undercutting or inverting the typical Western's
glorification of violence; also recalls, for me, 
Brock Vond's interest in Lombroso's theories of in
Vineland, too.





> 
> Forbes Parkhill's "The Kenosha Kid" story opens with
> a waylaying/ 
> stickup situation and the Kid fairly quickly manages
> to overcome the  
> bad guy in the usual way, with fists.
> 

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