Fwd: ATDTDA (14) - Frank/Iceland spar

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

laura kelber wrote:
>
> 1. First of all, I want to thank you, Mike, 
>for your copious notes. The fact that you haven't 
>gotten a huge response doesn't mean they're not 
>being avidly read. It's summertime in the Northern 
>Hemisphere, after all. Personally, I've been putting 
>in overtime at my main occupation, wallowing in 
>depression, or I would have responded sooner.

Thank you! I've been on the other side of this 
host/guest relationship myself, and found it a lot 
easier to read the host notes than
respond to them.

I hope your depression eases. 
In the meantime, you've done a lot 
with the Iceland Spar theme and made some
great additions. To my mind, particularly these:

> Mexico as a mirror of Texas

and, maybe, Spanish colonization as a mirror of
British/French?


> Frank and Ewball (p. 386) argue about which one should
> be the Kid, which the sidekick; just as Deuce and Sloat
> argued, north-of-the-border.
...
> Thanking the sidekick of the life-saver
> is the same as thanking the actual >life-saver.
> So when Frank crosses the border and kills Sloat,
> Deuce's >sidekick, in some sense, it's as good
> as killing Deuce. Maybe that's why he >gives up the chase.
>

a whole cluster of likenesses