ATDTDA (14) references p 382

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

muneca - doll (?)

"Something big in the works, maybe?"
1910 revolution continued and transformed Mexico
in a lot of ways (though not, maybe, enough
to refute Bodin (the theologian and proto-sociologist
(thumbs up) and witch-burner (thumbs down)
who argued against revolution as hindering social change))

"Your eyes...I never see eyes like this"
Are Frank's eyes blue?  She is a flirter, isn't she

caldereros y sus macheteros - boilermakers and their (?)
("machete-wielder" - there's a Puerto Rican 
independence group called Los Macheteros to this day)
-- like the boilermakers have their own path-clearers
which continues the theme of militant labor

veta madre - mother lode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_lode
"Veta madre, for instance, is the name given 
to a seven-mile long silver vein discovered 
in 1548 in Guanajuato, Mexico."
(which is the rem in which Frank, Ewball and Dwayne
are mediating)

We're pretty sure Frank isn't Kieselguhr, aren't we?
Although maybe he has a Kieselguhr cape in his backpack
for special occasions.

"qualified demolition folks....depending on their
jobs for their jobs on this ol' Porfiriato..."
ie Porfirio Diaz's gov't provides patronage
for the mining jobs
(a power that'd be really helpful for an up and coming union...)

Just to be perfectly clear, Dwayne is breaking
Frank out to do a demolition job, in the belief
that the latter is the Kieselguhr kid.

"Federales've got photos, I've seen 'm."
Federales -  common term used for the 
Mexican regular or Federal Army, especially 
during the 34 year of rule by Porfirio Diaz; 
(1876 to 1911 with one brief break). 
(also used today to denote the Mexican
Federal Police)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federales

flashing back to when Frank was playing the
galandronome, with Gaston Villa and His
Bughouse Bandoleros -- (p 374)  "As if his father's
charro act had placed an interdiction on the
bloodline, Gaston understood that to enter
old Mexico would require of him something like
a gift of grace for which he doubted
his soul was eligible"

what father, what charro (cowboy) act?
oh yeah, p 315: "Gaston's father had once
ridden the rodeo"
now, call me ISO (Iceland Spar Obsessed)
but it occurs to me to want to juxtapose
Gaston expediting Frank's exit from Tellluride
with Dwayne expediting Frank's exit from jail

(mirror within mirror, shortest permanent
farewell I've noticed yet, Gaston's mother
"kissed him adios at the depot") 

mirror-phrase "Please, don't preoccupy yourself..."
(p 315, Gaston to Frank)

"No say prayo-coopy, compadre!" (p 379, Ewball to
Frank about where the money's coming from)

Frank -- escapes the fallout from his inquiries
by becoming a player in a band
(nice peaceful occupation)

turning from that, though, to mining
(like swallowing spit, he relegates the
pursuit of Deuce to his dreams)
but is swept into political prison
and becomes radicalized...the old
self-fulfilling prophecy, the Federales have
his picture as the Kieselguhr Kid, and
they make him into one!