ATDTDA (14) references p 388c (quickie), 389

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

from the Pynchonwiki again:
"Rev'd Toplady, in A Short Essay on Original Sin, 
likened the soul at death to a bird leaving a cage:
'...souls fly from the body at death 
as a bird flies from a broken cage, 
or as a captive escapes from a place of 
painful and dishonourable confinement.'"

so the "inaccessible dark frenzy"
of Joaquin the parrot, in his cage,
means he's alive & kicking

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389 - fairly straightforward.
I spent some time trying to figure out when
Huerta would have been near Durango, Durango,
but nothing leapt out.  Plus the fact that it 
wouldn't necessarily have had to be him personally there -
he doesn't appear on horseback yelling, "No chinga con
el Chavalito" the way Major Marvy does in GR.

So Ewball demonstrates a sharpshooter ability quite
out of keeping with that required of a mining engineer,
and one wonders further about the nature of Empresas
Oustianas, S.A. 

Oust, of course, is something one does to political
regimes (if one hasn't the good fortune to have been
apprised and convinced by the 
theologian-sociologist-(yay)-witchburner-(boo)
Bodine, er, Bodin, that this isn't a desirable thing to do)

But apparently what he's been able to accomplish
thus far hasn't earned Ewball his bones, so
he won't be welcomed back north of the border.