ATDTDA (17): Cowboy poets (463.5) and a question

[bekah]

At 2:42 AM +0000 9/5/07, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>By the way, what do we make of these last two paragraphs?  In the 
>former, Frank enters the Hotel Noctambulo where communication is 
>everywhere, evident in the projects, neighborly rapport, and 
>"festive crowd."  In the latter, the "strange motorcycles" roar with 
>a sound that is "too exotic ... to carry much of any message."  Two 
>paragraphs that stress the communicable and incommunicable nature of 
>Fickle Creek.  Ideas?
>


I guess I make of it that "the times they are a'changin'. "   Would 
the noise of an internal combustion engine be rather exotic in 
Colorado circa 1900?.  Is engine noise mentioned anywhere else in 
AtD?  Hot air balloons are silent.  Trains and naptha engines were 
kind of noisy,  I guess.  There are other kinds of engines mentioned 
on page 27.

<http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?00073799+MCC-3799>  1910?


Bekah