ATDTDA (7): Mr Kindred, 194

robinlandseadel at comcast.net robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Wed Apr 25 13:38:55 CDT 2007


          Paul Nightingale :
          The conversation between Deuce and "the company rep"
          (194) is also predicated on the sense that any witness
          shouldn't be offered incriminating evidence: from the
          rep's pov this includes Deuce himself, but it also
          implicitly includes a reader/voyeur. As Peter has
          suggested, the writing in these pagess is indeed
          cinematic, and here we have another Metzian moment in
          which the reader identifies with the camera, so to
          speak.

Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" came to mine, plausible deniability, no fingerprints from the sources, no way to point away from the triggerman. Of course, were're looking at kinds of services offered by "Intel" ops., right? And the Chums of Chance are, after all, one of them vital tools for Intellegence operations.



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