atddta 32:herding chickens

[Mark Kohut]

Love that star light finding.......
   
  Yes, TRP has people meet up and get from place to place so often that it is laughable.....
  which I guess is part of a spy/adventure novel parody......
   
  For TRP, the scenes are all?......He embodies his themes scene by scene, yes?
   
  reading a scholar on other things yesterday, he made a very interesting point on detectives 
  in fiction, especially in hisotrical novels................They are like historians struggling through clues to understand what has happened.........
   
  Isn't Lew like a solid throughline in AtD?....like some solidity in the fog of betrayal, and a person committed to finding "reality" amidst the fog of appearances?
   
  I sometimes see Lew as the Author as bassline of reality????

"grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
  907-913

Lew had gotten Dally interested in money again, is why she was on this
tougher mission, to find out even more on Crouchmas, a tougher roll for
her, if it holds, 

Just before she leaves to Constantinople he regards Dally, p. 907 "Some
announcement of Lew's final release from is obligations, if any still
existed, to the T.W.I T." is how Lew holds Dally's smittening nature to the
Cohen's warning back on 227 that the 22 "cards" caused the most damage.. 

"Would the light of her innocence..even be enough to show him..that the
major arcana..had never necessarily been in... a condition of sin" 

Would anyone be able to help give light to the relative pressure release
valve Lew's feeling about human nature, we're all of us in this web and to
suss out what comes first the chicken or the egg the criminal or the
revolutionary. The engineering education and the the bomb delivery system
job. The paid tramp kept woman or the soldier of fortune? Aren't we all
just lookin for a payin' job?

Here's an observation- How does Dally get from Charing Cross to Szged (the
delay-no trains could get readily into Budapest, the elections there
causing street fighting) so quickly? It would take a long time. It bugs me-
boom you're there- but the book would be too long if he made the trips more
fluid.

In ATD we can tell there's efforts to prevent some knowledge from getting 
out, but at the same time, innocents are targeted to receive the
intelligence quite easily. Dally had been seen by Crouchmas, walking out of
his mystery ministry offshore bank office, so he sends idiot spies Irmi and
Erno looking for her. 

p. 909 "Kit Traverse, meanwhile, was sitting in a Wagons-Lits train headed
the other way, toward Paris, which according to schedule should've been 
rolling into Buda-Pesth about now, except for a slow start owing to
mysterious revolutionary activities on the line, so that both his train and
Dally's happen to arrive at the same time...."

They seem to want any old Zaharoff Girl, knowing that he'll pay ransom too,
so they're thinking, just get any redhead. Kit boards, the back and forth
farce starts with all the characters, Dally lets slip a declaration of
knowing Crouchmas but the abductors don't see this for the board in front
of their eyes now that they blur Kit with Zaharoff and ask about selling
them a submarine. 

the star motif is so huge -- the star on stage, star as dally in the major 
arcana, the star as the dog star cirius, the star that is the first star of 
the night in the passion night of Kit and Dally. 

Jill

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