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

[rich]

i'll say again:

Frank's scene with the bomb-laden train and the federales is a pretty
close replica of the scene in the film Duck, You Sucker, early 1970s.

rich

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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]
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> 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"
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>   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
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> 6-smoke and steam, time whose substance grew more condensed as each tick
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>   came faster and faster, all perfectly inseparable from Frank's certainty that
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>   jumping or not jumping was no longer the point, he belonged to what was
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>   happening, to the shriek from ahead as the engineer in the federal train
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>   leaned on his steam horn and Frank automatically responded with his own,
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> 11-the two combining in a single great chord that gathered in the entire mo-
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>   ment, the brown-uniformed federales scattering from their train, the insane
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>   little engine shuddering in its frenzy, the governor valve* no longer able to
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>   regulate anything, and from someplace a bug came in out of the blind veloc-
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>   ity and went up Frank's right nostril and brought him back to the day. "Shit, "
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> 16-he whispered, and let go, dropped, hit the ground, rolled with a desperate
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>   speed not his own, praying that he wouldn't break his leg again.
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>
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> --- On Thu, 7/17/08, mark.kohut at gmail.com <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: mark.kohut at gmail.com <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Moral Nuances: Reading p. 985, AtD, in which Frank causes a train
>> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 4:09 PM
>> I've shared a document with you called "Moral
>> Nuances: Reading p. 985,
>> AtD, in which Frank causes a train":
>> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ac6b6tpw9f8h_184c7qb58c9&invite=q79kn3
>>
>> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at
>> Google Docs. To open
>> this document, just click the link above. ---
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