ATDDTA(10) Things Are Heating Up As Frank Goes (Way) Down Again [282:1-25]

[Keith]

William Blake arriving in the town of Machine (in Jarmusch's film  
Dead Man) has much the same feel as Frank arriving in Telluride:

(Be patient through the opening credits.)
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7__lO0A3wQ

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[281:26-282:1-2] "simple narrowed grid of a town that seemed to've  
been shipped in all at the same time and squeezed onto the valley floor"

   http://tinyurl.com/2vsrnj

   http://www.aaccessmaps.com/show/map/telluride#links

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[282:3] "a line of drovers"

drover: One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it  
his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. (Websters-  
1913)

     (Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell  
bullocks. Shak.)

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[282:5] "brake and footplate men" = train workers

footplate: A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or  
brace his feet; as: (a) The platform for the engineer and fireman of  
a locomotive. (b) The foot-rest of a coachman's box.
   http://www.watercressline.co.uk/footpl.htm

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[282:10] "eyes rimmed in the hot flush of some unframable desire"

Charon (and fen) again:

Thereat were quieted the fleecy cheeks
Of him the ferryman of the livid fen,
Who round about his eyes had wheels of flame.
                              (Canto III)

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This section is as olfactory as the last section was optical. The  
miners vs. owners hatred was so high one could smell it [282:18].  
And, telluride ore and compounds were malodorous as well [282:19-25]

"Fortunately, tellurium compounds are encountered rarely by most  
people. They are teratogenic and should only be handled by competent  
chemists since ingestion in even small amounts causes dreadful  
smelling breath and appalling body odour."
http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Te-en.htm

"believed to rise [...] from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself."

	Upon the margin of a lofty bank
	Which great rocks broken in a circle made,
	We came upon a still more cruel throng;
	And there, by reason of the horrible
	Excess of stench the deep abyss throws out,
	We drew ourselves aside behind the cover
	Of a great tomb  (Inferno, Canto XI)

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In this novel, as above may be as below, but below is pretty much Hell.

Mining is one step from hell, if not Hell itself, and all of this  
electricity is Infernal.