RE Bush or Hatch & CATCH, CATCH, CATCH, CATCH 22

[Michael Bailey]

It looks as if alice is reading thru the AtD read and got
hung up on a critical plot-point where perhaps the discussion
didn't fulfill, ahmm, one's needs.

I myself remember being fraught with feelings of inadequacy,
that there were satisfactions to be had in the passage that I was missing.

again, stringently, I don't want to deny parallels to
Texas-radio-and-the-big-chair,
but to drive that donkey down the arroyo a little further, he could've
had Deuce 'n' them head down Texas way.  If he wanted to be more explicit.
(Although Utah, like Texas, was bloodily acquired in the Mexican-American War.
Which Thoreau was jailed for not paying the taxes for, bless his
civil disobedient memory...)

ok, why Utah, why Zoroastrianism?


 Why afaik no reference to the Mormon
hierarchy - one remembers that there was also a secular authority since it
was a US territory and by the time of Webb's "delenda" it was even a state.

Is there an historical objective correlative for the Governor, and
if so is he LDS or is he secular?  Or something completely different?

Zoroastrianism: is there a veiled reference to Zorro? (-;

- Zoroaster was cited and quoted thru the Middle Ages as a major magician
on a par with, like, Hermes.
- Zoroastrian diaspora: like the crypto-Jews found in Mexico?  could there
have been crypto-Zoroastrians in Utah?

http://parsikhabar.net/zoroastrians-keep-the-faith-and-keep-dwindling/
(reprint of the NY Times article)

a Zoroastrian has a blog:
http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/New-York/New-York/Manhattan/blog-86804.html

per the article, Zoroastrians built Mumbai, after being driven out of Persia
by the Muhammadans.  So the perception of them as the quintessence
of the Mystic East is not that far off.

Is there an implicit comparison between the ability of the Zoroastrians
to build Mumbai after being driven from Persia, and the efforts of Webb,
who is representative of a Rebel diaspora, and his heirs and assigns,
to build something that will last?

(Turner thesis, a twist thereon: no more empty spaces to set up shop.
even in a seemingly god-forsaken wild like Utah there's already a
government, and a governor)

OK, last Zoroastrian grasp: is there a reference to Nietzsche's
Also Sprach Zarathustra, o-or even to the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Where capitalism is the ape that picks up the bone...
or, no, Reef is picking up the shattered bones and body...

I lied: one more - maybe Pynchon is a Zoroastrian.
They have an open-to-the-public branch in NYC:
mentioned on the above-referenced blog, 2 posts further.
(Actually I was recently thinking that maybe Pynchon
is into Eckankar, since bilocation was a major tenet for them)


--- general AtD reminiscences --
We are talking, what, 1900?
Book starts in 1893.  1891 - Pope Leo XIII issues Rerum  Novarum.  1890 Utah
becomes a state.   1901 McKinley assassinated.
1895 Webb blows up a train and also Tesla does some cool things.  Kit goes East.
Lake gets wilder and wilder.  Frank goes to college.
Reef the gambler faces a shotgun wedding...

We get Webb's backstory not much before his demise.

Arrggh, I never found my AtD when I unpacked from Kansas.
Nobody, as far as I know, has mapped the travels, nor worked out a
comprehensive timeline.  ---wait, I know I saw a timeline somewhere.

As Alice said, maybe it's time to spend some time at the wiki...



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