Atdtda[4]: 99.16-104-30 Summary
Michel
mryc2903 at yahoo.fr
Wed Mar 7 03:40:40 CST 2007
News travels fast: Dr Tesla is looking for employees to assist in his
Colorado experiment; Kit's urged by his 'sidekick' Jack Gigg to go for
it, regardless his -or theirs- young age; Kit remembers a previous visit
to Colorado Springs (99.24-28).
Practically the minute they arrive at the operation, they meet Foley
Walker, "special assistant to famed financier Scarsdale Vibe" (99.33);
the next day already Foley presents a deal: becoming a member of Vibe's
L.I.S.P., education in Yale. First reaction of Kit: "Horsefeathers"
(100.18).
It is not nonsense, of course, because, says Foley, "I am he" (100.19),
which brings us to Foley's story; it goes on until 102.17 and Foley
concludes that "you could make a case [...] for me being more Scarsdale
Vibe than Scarsdale Vibe himself. " (102.15-16). "Kit was respectful but
not convinced."
The final act of seduction is, with the help (?) of Tesla carried out in
Tesla's office: money wired, account opened. The "[l]ong night ahead"
(102.36) will show a most remarkable storm with colours, electricity
having a strange effect on bullets, and deaf and blind kids "hearing and
seeing frequencies hitherto unaccounted for in the medical science of
the day" (103.12-13) and, it turns out, caused a "voltaic frenzy"
(103.18) in Kit. Kit makes now the final decision and is ready to sign
up with Walker/Vibe.
This section concludes with Kit already helping out Tesla. And again,
we see an exchange on "seeing it".
Michel
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