ATDTDA (14) references p 386 - not quite _that_ straightforward of a page

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

**** backing up to 384  
when they got through the mummies, they caught
their train at the old Marfil station -
http://tinyurl.com/26pnzs
apparently Marfil lost its train station to Guanajuato
long about the end of the 19th century
so whatever train they caught was a preterite train...

reminiscent of that city in Colorado
where the original Oro (gold) City didn't flourish
because of heavy brown sand in the sluice boxes,
which turned out to be full of lead and silver
which gave rise to Leadville
*no, nothing symbolic here, just Oro City giving way 
to Leadville* 

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p 386 --

a companionable copa - glass, or "cuppa"

pues - then (forthwith?)

where are they after riding for days?
  near a silver mine

high uninflected walls - 
http://www.johnsheridanart.com/poorceza.htm
In the summer of 1870, it was decided that 
Cézanne would paint outdoors alongside Pissarro 
at Pontoise, and co-develop a motif. They chose 
to paint an orchard with the white and 
*uninflected walls* [asterisks mine] of various houses 
rising above and behind, as their composition 
(thumbnail on page - nothing leaps out demanding
to explain in what way they are "uninflected")

"alleyways were apt to turn to stairsteps"
ie, both the places Deuce told him to stay
out of in his dream

arroyo - an intermittently dry creek 

the tattoo - ie Ewball has a tattoo depicting
a voluptuous woman's form, may have gotten it
recently, along with the ammo belts and hat -
outlaw regalia

Advanced Blasting course - about as long as
the surveying course Mason offers, or the
astronomy course Dixon offers, in M&D
- but skips immediately to the practicum:
"...you ever wonder which one of these
is the end you light?"