ATD paperback cover

[Monte Davis]

 Mark Kohut sez: 
 
> Great recreated memory, Monte.....I for one had forgotten....  
> And this captures the possibility of ...History in TRPs vision.... 
 
Note also the coy foreshadowings in the next couple of pages:
 
"Renzo's _picchiata_ [dive] had been perhaps the first and purest expression
in northern Italy of a Certain Word that would not quite exist for another
year or two... 'You saw how they [on the ground] broke apart,' Renzo said
later. 'But we did not. We remained single, aimed, unbreakable. _Un vettore
[vector], si_?'... He was now in uniform all the time. Eagles seemed to be a
prominent motif."
 
One can be pretty confident in guessing that the Certain Word begins with
"F" and ends with "-ism" -- the fasces being the Romans' bundle of rods,
aligned and bound into unbreakability.
 
By chance I heard an NPR report yesterday of a Boston show of decorative art
from Napoleonic France, with a discussion in passing of how N. made the
transition in motif from the Gallic cock to the imperial eagle... a legacy
from Rome if not before, and a legacy to Fascist Italy and Germany... among
other aquilaphile great powers, some of them still extant.
 
When the time comes, we're going to have to wrestle with Kit's final
multiplicity -- as helpful technologist facilitating the new art of
dive-bombing (against strikers, no less), as Traverse scion, and as postwar
Parisian "out of the Vibe pocket." We may find more Pokler and Maskelyne in
our all-American boys than we like.
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