end ch 9 begin 10

[Michael Bailey]

I meant ch8, in which Takeshi enters the story. didn't really have all
that many notes, in fact.


The way he makes his appearance and takes up his part in enlightening
Prairie is really nice and smooth, I think.

The Chipco sequence contains the chapter's other lengthy sentence,
again developing the character's emotionality for us and commenting on
his motives in becoming a sort of modern-day ronin, which is
accurately mapped to freelancing in Western society; his relationship
with his mentor is contrastable to Rex's later jaundiced view of
mentor-mentee loyalties and their role in the preservation of
inflexible capitalism, in that it's practical, contains elements of
affection and sleaziness, and does seem to be a relationship
sanctioned by capitalism...

he commends his soul to the gods of the sky, but finds himself doing
little puddle jumps.  Something universal about that.

The DA convention in Japan reminds us of Hunter Thompson, doesn't it?
lizard connection being abstracted or extracted into the preceding
Chipco scene...huge quantities of pharmaceuticals...
somehow maintaining a twisted chipperness thru it all...

the business he drags DL into seems a lot like therapy...
like the paint job on the car, something about those scenes lets me
skip over them lightly without examining them.  Maybe someday.

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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."