ATDTDA (14) pp 401-402

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

I didn't want to give the impression that
I enjoyed the Mexico section more than this
section.  I think it's tight and fun.

a few nuances I noticed:

"You boys got da 'ying' for any o' dis..."
"Actually-" began Darby...

then Chick interrupts him, he regains his composure,
and uses the same word to start his businesslike sentence:
"Actually," Darby elaborated, "it was the way you said
'the time machine.'  Almost as if you knew of a particular
one, someplace."


"...songstress in the spangled garment who, 
or perhaps which..."
some ambiguity as to whether it's the person
or the garb that attracted Darby's attention


"I am the way into the doleful city" - inscription
over the gate to Hell, in Dante's _Inferno_
-- which reminds me of an old "Tom Swiftie":
"Where are my canned pineapples?" he asked dolefully.
(Dole being a canned fruit purveyor)

Another colossal arch.  Isn't there one of these
out West, and another one in Eurasia someplace?
(and one in Paris, and one in St Louis, though not
figuring in this story...)

the arch "seems to date from some ancient catastrophe, 
far older than the city" - but remember page 154 where
the thing was commissioned...