Atdtda23: Usually around someplace, 648-650

[Paul Nightingale]

In the previous section the narrative prioritises Stray and then Ewball over
Frank. In 45.3 he introduces them and then sits back; Stray intervenes in
the exchange about Rosie's Cantina, effectively silencing Frank (649).
Ewball, having arrived out of nowhere ("I just happened to be in town for a
teatotalers' convention", 648), promptly disappears. The Frank-Stray
relationship is restored, somewhat transformed by what has happened, and she
refers for the first time to Sloat (649).

>From here the final part of the section prioritises Frank's "one recurring
dream about Webb". Repetition/difference: "... always the same door, set
into a wall, maybe in the anonymous middle of some city block ..." etc. This
door has "no handle or knob, no lock or keyhole": cf. Foley, "possessed of
the master Hausknochen" on 620. Frank usually knows how the dream will
unfold: "... and that more often than not is what he would wake from ..."
(650). Going back to the start of the chapter, Stray's appearance on 644
replays the scene in Fickle Creek (464); but that narrative developed
differently.  On 646 Frank considered his place in the family: his dream
will then see him distanced from, if not rejected by, father and brothers.