ATDTDA (33) - p. 924-6 peyote
kelber at mindspring.com
kelber at mindspring.com
Wed May 21 12:17:57 CDT 2008
The Trespassers are us, resource-poor, seeking to pillage the past (start with fossil fuels and take it from there). Evilly rapacious, but sympathetic in their/our nostalgia and grief over what's been lost?
Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>
>The trespassers in Frank's vision, The Trespassers in AtD, come and people are driven from
> their home/homeland.......
> Are The Trespassers those who destroy by trying to/being able to traverse time?----if the human resides in time, and should, they have transgressed that?
>
>kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>In Frank's vision, they're trespassers, aka in ATD as The Trespassers, possibly gringos who literally visited Aztlan from the future (our present?), or a vision of the future (from the Aztlan past) when the U.S. would seize the Southwest (Aztlan) from Mexico.
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