AtDTdA: (9) 260-261

[Jasper]

260-261 Deuce and Lake Get Hitched

Page 260
Deuce and Sloat return
These two, it will be recalled, are the men hired by the mine owners to 
kill Webb Traverse. (193) It is unclear who is whose sidekick. (195) 
Sloat tends to bodies, Deuce the spirit. (197)
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We return to Telluride, Colorado, along with Deuce and Sloat, who are 
looking for a little R&R.  At the Nonpareil Eating House, Deuce spots 
Lake, Lake spots Deuce, time slows.  They're soon engaged, to the great 
joy of pretty much nobody.  Mayva (mother Traverse) leaves town.  Deuce 
and Lake get hitched, move in together.  Sloat moves in too.  And then 
it gets all x-rated for a while.  Good times for all!

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Curly Dee
Mathematicians call the "partial derivative" symbol "curly d." Wikipedia 
shows the symbol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_derivative 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_derivative>
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Curly Dee's spread
spread: A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an 
entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]

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ten-dayers
The terms "ten-day miner," "ten-day man," "ten-dayer" and "ten-day 
stiff" are common names for the "hobo miner," who worked in a camp only 
long enough to get a roadstake before setting out for the next camp.
*wiki*
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T 
<http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T>

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inside out
Optical illusion.
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the Cosmopolitan
It's still there, located in the Hotel Columbia:
http://www.columbiatelluride.com/ <http://www.columbiatelluride.com/>

In Deuce's time it was a grand saloon.  Now it's all full of Hollywood 
types with expensive skis.  Here are some photos dated between 1903 and 
1915:
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000084+X-84 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000084+X-84>
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000085+X-85 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10000085+X-85>

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Page 261
Nonpareil Eating House
The motto over the door was probably "None Like It!"
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lard smoke
Cf. p. 10, "tall smokestacks unceasingly vomiting black grease-smoke," 
and p. 216, "Just greasy ashes by the trailside."
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biscuit-shooter
I.e., a cook.
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Cañon City
Site of the Colorado State Penitentiary, meant to suggest Deuce and 
Sloat had done time there.
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Photos of the State Penn 1900 - 1910
Exteriors
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007810+X-7810 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007810+X-7810>
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007814+X-7814 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007814+X-7814>
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007815+X-7815 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007815+X-7815>

Cell house #2, 1900
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007827+X-7827 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007827+X-7827>

Some convicts, 1900
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007798+X-7798 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10007798+X-7798>

Visitors
http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10006991+X-6991 
<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10006991+X-6991>

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"Lake," Mayva called from the kitchen, just about the same time Sloat 
muttered, "Deuce."
Fate?  see also p 262

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"Civilians, now, my gosh.  That gong's about to start kickin you back, 
li'l amigo."

Aside from a possible Gilligan's Isla reference, I'm unclear on: 
"civilians" and "gong".  Please explain.

gong
???
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(he doesn't know either)
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that little buckaroo
S: (n) vaquero, buckaroo, buckeroo (local names for a cowboy ('vaquero' 
is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and 'buckaroo' is 
used especially in California))
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=buckaroo 
<http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=buckaroo>