IVIV (2) skeletons p. 20

[Doug Millison]

The skeletons against the sky remind me of the gallows in Mason & Dixon,

"a pair of Gallows, simplified to Penstrokes, in the glare of this  
Ocean sky." (MD 108)

They also recall to my mind those big skeletal weapon things in Star  
Wars.

"The development stretched into the haze and the soft smell of the fog  
component of smog, and of desert beneath the pavement--model units  
nearer the road, finished homes farther in, and just visible beyond  
them the skeletons of new construction, expanding into the  
unincorporated wastes." (IV 20)

  There may be a parallel to be made between M&D's Commerce: Slavery  
pairing and whatever IV posits as the corollary to Real Estate  
Development.

Commerce: Slavery = Real Estate Development: ???

"The desert creeps in on a man's land. […]
Is the desert's attack too powerful for any boy , or wall, or dead  
father and mother? […]
  And now the house begins to fill with desert, like the lower half of  
an hourglass which will never be inverted again. […]
'the city is only the desert in disguise.' "
--V. ch3 section v; pp. 70-71  Bantam/Windstone paperback