Atdtda[4]: 99.16-104-30 Summary

[kelber at mindspring.com]

P. 103:
"[Kit:] 'After I finish college I come to work for Mr. Vibe till the debt's paid off, that right?'" [and following]

This harkens back to p. 87:

"'Every time a stick goes off in the service of the owners, a blast convertible at the end of some chain of accountancy to dollar sums no miner ever saw, there will have to be a corresponding entry on the other side of God's ledger, convertible to human freedom no owner is willing to grant.'"

The p. 103 passage seems to be the flip side, somehow, of the dynamite equation.  Kit's making a devil's bargain with Vibe: education (and entry into the owners' camp) in exchange for his father's life.

Laura




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>Michel wrote:
>> Kit makes now the final decision and is ready to sign 
>>up with Walker/Vibe.


>>From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
>I wonder does this passage make anybody else sad for missed 
>opportunities?  Times that one has chosen the path more traveled 
>by, followed the dollar instead of the heart, placed one's dreams
>in the hands of the establishment instead of in those of
>the outcaste...
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>Relevant to AtD's plots, of course, is 
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>a) removal of Kit from Tesla's team as another phase 
>of interfering with Tesla
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>b) the deletion of Kit from anything like home - though he's 
>traveled around enough while working, there's been no leavetaking 
>until he gets on the train to Yale.  He's also betraying his class, 
>in Webb's terms
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