ATDDTA (6) 175 S 2

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

bekah noted:
> Now Lew (the proton - the Light Emitting Westerner/weirdo?) 

Yes! very nice...
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> 176:10 - "The altitude, the scale of the country out here, put a 
> balloonheaded clarity onto vision when directed at mine owners and 
> workers alike, revealing the Plutonic powers as they daily sent their 
> legions of gnomes underground to hollow out as much of that broken 
> domain as they could before the overburden collapsed, often as not on 
> top of their heads, though what did it matter to the Powers, who 
> always had more dwarves waiting, even eagerly, to be sent below. 
> Scabs and Union men, Union and scabs, round and round, changing 
> sides, changing back again, sure didn't help with what he felt no 
> embarrassment in thinking of as a contest for his soul."
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> - balloonheaded, as in idealistic? the Chums?
> 

and doesn't this hearken back to the "Chums in the Bowels of the Earth",
gnomes and all?