Moral Nuances: Reading p. 985, AtD, in which Frank causes a train wreck

[Mark Kohut]

As threatened, accepting my own challenge to read this page of AtD showing
what I can of OBA's 'moral vision'; his nuanced 'moral vision".

"Is the baby smiling of is it just gas?"---GR

first paragraph straight (although formatting lost). Then whole page in gmail document with my gloss indicated by asterisks * cued to page lines
after the text. 

[Of course, I'll be disagreed with, Or, Why do other people exist? 
A: to engage in dialogue]


p. 985
1-engine began to pick up speed. He swung down onto the step and was just

   about to jump when a peculiar thought occurred to him. Was this the "path"

   El Espinero had had in mind, this specific half mile of track, where suddenly

   the day had become extradimensional, the country shifted, was no longer

   the desert abstraction of a map but was speed, air rushing, the smell of

6-smoke and steam, time whose substance grew more condensed as each tick 

   came faster and faster, all perfectly inseparable from Frank's certainty that 

   jumping or not jumping was no longer the point, he belonged to what was 

   happening, to the shriek from ahead as the engineer in the federal train

   leaned on his steam horn and Frank automatically responded with his own,

11-the two combining in a single great chord that gathered in the entire mo-

   ment, the brown-uniformed federales scattering from their train, the insane

   little engine shuddering in its frenzy, the governor valve* no longer able to 

   regulate anything, and from someplace a bug came in out of the blind veloc-

   ity and went up Frank's right nostril and brought him back to the day. "Shit, "

16-he whispered, and let go, dropped, hit the ground, rolled with a desperate

   speed not his own, praying that he wouldn't break his leg again. 



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> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 4:09 PM
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