Atdtda22: [43.7ii] Should get out more, 630

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Sat Nov 24 02:34:04 CST 2007


[630.2-3] "Maybe you'll want at least a little field experience here."

Cf. Frank's parting from Wren, bottom of 280: "What you folks call
'research', right? Hit all the saloons, cribs, card rooms, and parlor
houses, hell, I couldn't keep that up more'n a week before somebody'd be on
to me."


[630.32-34] "There's never been a revolution in Russia on quite that scale,
you see, and it's followed the railroads out into Asia as well ..."

Cf. the railway and suburbia on 609:

The first pale husbands of the evening stood waiting for suburban trains
never meant to arrive at any destination on the rail map.

Cf. also the railway and modernity on 187:

... palatial towers of carved stone and fancy millwork coming up over the
edge of the brushland, looming out of early-morning thunderstorms ..." etc,
down to "horses patiently hitched nearby ..." etc.




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