ATDTDA (12): 328-329 - "he is one's father"

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

David Morris
> 
> During this tete a tete, both boys put their cards on the table and
> discuss their mutual unhappiness with the current state of affairs.
> 'Fax admits to spying and reporting on Kit's unhappiness to his dad.
> Kit admits to knowing 'Fax wants him out of the way, and proposes just
> disappearing as an alternative to being murdered by 'Fax. 'Fax
> advises a "direct" (but with false religious motives) appeal to
> Scarsdale to be allowed to go to Germany to follow his heart's desired
> New Vectorist math.
> 

this is a particularly sweet instantiation of the double-agent, 
double-cross, paranoia (how about this: Tesla actually works
for Vibe -- o-or, Vibe works for Tesla, a Trilby-Svengali deal,
with Tesla avuncular-dracuncular-Dracula-like-
after all, Serbia's pretty close to Transylvania --- and has 
whipped up the storm with his lab-or-atory in order to soften 
up Kit for indoctrination? ok, too crazy - or is it?) 

Prisoners' Dilemma scenario, wherein Kit's aware that 
'Fax's spying on him, but still takes his advice; 
and everybody knows more than each other thinks...
(Vibe family tradition anyway)

Fairfax knew the money was in the satchels; Kit knows who
did Webb in; Tesla knows Kit has the potential to be a 
visionary like himself...

and then the really good line from Fairfax (which is old English
for fair-haired, isn't it - as in "fair-haired boy") -
"he is one's father"

Well, yes, such a civilized and blithe-spirited way to say it.
And in the end, Kit's revenge plans falter because he's really
not the revenge kind of guy, but he can't just shrug it off:
"he is one's father"