AtDTdA (9): 245

[Mark Kohut]

Since the Chums are "fictional" --and real--within this book, then I would think the author issues their orders, at the first level. As an author would the Russian Chums' orders.
   
  Author, who would know everything about the Chums, since he writes their lives (adventures) 
  is very akin to an all-knowing author of History, let's call him/her God. 
   
  I think TRP is very consciously linking authorial fictions to Godlike events in the creation of History. 
   
  As above, so below.
   
  MK

Jasper <jasper.fidget at gmail.com> wrote:
  245 The Chums in Venice (continued)

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Garibaldi
Famous Italian leader, major figure in the Italian Unification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Garibaldi
*wiki*

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"Ehi, sugo!"
"Hey, sauce!" Does this make sense to anyone? It does not make any sense 
in Italian.
*wiki*

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twentyfold
5 chums times 4 suspects each.
*wiki*

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"a trembling apparition in the distance, off to starboard"
I was hoping for Hamlet's father, but I guess not. It's the Russians! 
Yet another example of things (usually faces) slowing coming into view 
in this book.

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flying onion
Something like this I suppose:
http://www.minotaurz.com/minotaur/russ/RussarcSt_B.jpg

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Romanoffs
The House of Romanov (????????, pronounced [r??man?f]) was the second 
and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country for five 
generations from 1613 to 1761.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanoff

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"those invisible levels 'above', where orders, never signed or 
attributed, were written and cut"
"whoever issues Padzhitnoff's orders is intimate with whoever issues ours"
"Long as we just keep on doing everything we're told [...] we'll never 
know. Wages of unquestioning obedience"

See also p. 246, especially Randolph's comment about "fear" keeping them 
at their duty.

Todays kick-ass essay question:
So who issues the Chums' orders? Some government or commercial entity? 
Something beyond Earth, beyond time, God? What does it say about the 
Chums that they don't know? And what does it mean that they are 
beginning to ask questions? People interested in connecting AtD with 
other works by the same author might do well here; fortunately, I'm not 
one of them (heh, sic).

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bulbiform
bulb-shaped (duh)

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A. dell'A.
Every time you buy A dell'A baby seal dies...
No wait: it's short for Gli Amici dell'Azzardo, the Italian branch of 
the Chumsofchance.org

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twentyfold
5 chums times 4 suspects each.

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osteria
tavern.
*wiki*

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San Polo
The smallest district/area in Venice, and among the oldest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Polo
*wiki*

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rio
narrow waterway in Venice.
*wiki*

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against the night
OK...
*wiki*

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calli
Venetian 'street' or 'lane'.
*wiki*


 
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