ATDTDA (14) references p 384

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

(non-384)

all this stuff about border crossing 
might be deeply significant, to someone
que entiende mucho mejor a mi
the theories of Kristeva & Lacan

what springs to my lowbrow mind is the Johnny Depp
movie where he goes "I carried some plants across
an imaginary line" and the judge goes, like,
"That line was real, and the plants are illegal,"
whacks the gavel on the table and sends him 
to the juzgado...

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"I thought it was somethin' religious" (last line of 383,
Frank speaking about the hanging corpses)

"You could call it that, it all gets turned to
pesos and centavos, water to wine you might say..."
Dwayne reflecting a point of view that takes
currency VERY seriously indeed

and then "we must've *interrupted somethin*"
(Frank was already queasy)

Compinche = Partner in crime.
because of the pinch/pynch cognatude, 
I can't help thinking of OBA sitting somewhere
in the medias res of the 60s realizing the 
full extent of his leftist buddies' plans...
probably just a fanboy interpolation...

the uniforms "...sobriety as to personal display
...no insignia, no evidence of any affiliation 
to anything." - so, not quite a "false flag"
operation, but definitely irregulars

"Ay, Jalisco" - Frank flashing back to his
mariachi days?  this is the start of a song:
http://www.nuspel.org/jalisco.html

Jalisco is the Mexican province of which 
Guadalajara is the capital...

"Jalisco is known for being the birthplace 
of Mariachi music and Tequila." (Wikipedia)

El Ñato - if this is the same El El Ñato
from Gravity's Rainbow, then his lifespan was
awesome among anarchists

here's a sidewise thought: leave off the tilde
a-and you've got...NATO
lookit this flag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_NATO.svg
quadrature (this couldn't possibly be reminding
me of Hauptstufe, Brennschluss et al?)
something I never thunk before!

El Ñato - is Spanish for "the knife"

so instead of staying in jail getting
stabbed by a cuchillo, Frank is busted out
and recruited by El Ñato