AtD (37) p.1043 'See, that's the thing", anarchist-bashing, and a moll rescue

[Mark Kohut]

P 1053

"still dead's far as I know."
"See.that's the thing"----Lew began.
Heady, metaphysical-like comedy going on here, yes?" 
thoughts?

Deuce in "Security", like Lew. Union-busting, more blaming the anarchists dialogue. 

Lew and Deuce sparring, sniping verbally, until Lew's great Hollywood joke when Deuce pulls hiis gun BUT he is saved by Shalimar with her tommy gun. How'd she get there? Sliding in

with Lew all along? Or, popping in like a teleporter? "Check up on me" seems to indicate the latter. Which means she knows what's happening with Lew all along? And nobody is surprised. Or, of course, there is always that 'other life' existing alongside the one we live?..

 
Or, just part of the detective plot parody? 
 
A reviewer on Iceland Spar: 

it lets people see into the fourth dimension, time, thereby showing them the shadow-world that surrounds us all like a colorless, odorless gas. When one character looks at a nugget of silver through this mysterious substance, he finds: "Not only had the entire scene doubled and, even more peculiarly, grown brighter, but as for the two overlapping images of the nugget itself, one was as gold as the other was silver."
 
Is Iceland Spar almost everywhere? Is Spar an internal metaphor for such shadow-worlds everywhere in the novel. Whenever we have a juxtaposition in space in the text that might only be understood as a jump in time? Shalimar? and soon Ms. Macara?