ATDDTA(10) Double Vision [285]

[Keith]

Frank is chatting with Ellmore Disco, an enterprising fellow already  
seeing past the mining industry and into tourism. More interested in  
a Capitalist Utopia than the one envisioned by Anarchism. He's a  
walking melting pot...Mexican?....Finnish?....Chinese? Asia dominates  
this page with Wells about to give audience to the Japanese  
delegation. It is so important for them to talk to Wells that they'd  
rather die than fail to do so. Frank's desperation to see Wells is  
minimized in comparison to the Japanese desire. He'll have to go  
through Meldrum to get to Wells, but Disco starts feeling around to  
see if Frank's a bomber.

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[285:15-16] "a ruinous C major ("or as they say in this town, 'A  
miner'")

C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical major scale based on  
C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C. Its key signature has no  
flats/sharps (see below: Scales and keys). Its relative minor is A  
minor, and its parallel minor is C minor. Some instruments, such as  
the piano, are said to be tuned in C.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major

A minor (abbreviated Am) is a minor scale based on A, consisting of  
the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, G and A (natural minor scale - the  
harmonic minor scale contains a G♯ instead of a G natural). Its key  
signature has no flats or sharps (see below: Scales and keys). Its  
relative key is C major, and its parallel major is A major.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_minor

The description is of Ellmore's teeth, making him seem like a Chinese  
(music-hall) vampire, with those saber-shaped canines amidst piano  
ivories:
   http://tinyurl.com/38qs3u
   http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/pics/M/mrv10.jpg
   http://www.evildread.com/moviepics/mr-vampire01.jpg

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[285:27-28] "out with that wackyzacky"
The use of the wakizashi is first written about from the sixteenth  
century onwards. Originally, the term "wakizashi" was used to mean  
any sword worn on the side of the main sword. Later, the term was  
used to denote the group of swords which were shorter than the main  
sword of the samurai, and as a result, "wakizashi" acquired the  
meaning of the side sword, because a side sword was shorter than the  
main sword by its nature.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakizashi

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[285:29] "Cal Rutan"

Telluride Sheriff J. Calvin Rutan (left) deputized Robert Meldrum,  
Willard Runnells and other hired gunmen to keep Union Miners in line  
during the labor struggles of 1902-1904.
   http://www.telluridetoday.com/pictures.htm

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