Tariq Khalil: the black and white genome

[Joseph Tracy]

  Tarik Khalil I've been tugging at this name  from time to time  
since I first heard it.

My first thought was this is a reference to the leftist of Pakistani  
origin Tariq Ali, whose thoughtfulness and knowledge about the  
global  politics of the regions surrounding Iraq Iran I find  
informative and intelligent . He came to public attention in the late  
60's though televised debate with H Kissinger.
The intellectual connection here in IV seems pretty strong. Tariq Ali  
was the intellectual face of combative mistrust and radical defiance  
toward the American colonial enterprise.He became famous via Vietnam  
war resistance(including  the Ali Kissinger fight) and is now a  
powerful and knowledgeable critic of  policies in Iraq, pakistan  
Afghanistan.  TK heads Doc to the core event of the murder of Glenn  
Carlock and the apparent abduction of Micky Wolfmann.
  M. Ali was  the champ. He is the famous black Ali
Khalil Gibran was a very popular mystic/artist/poet most famous for a  
book called the Prophet. I have a vague memory of a reference to this  
in IV but am not sure???
If you say the name aloud the second K disappears and you are left  
with Tariq and Alil which sounds like
Allele

Allele in Greek means other and refers in genetics to the 2 pairs of  
aternative DNA sequences at the same gene locus. They are related to  
the mixing  and expression of phenotypic traits in sexual reproduction.

Since V I  have noticed  TRP using an odd structure of parrallel plot  
and character lines which interact , reproduce and combine in  
unexpected ways.  I suspect Tariq Khalil is meant via the Afro hair  
and black white contrast to be one of Doc's others. But he is clearly  
paired to Glenn Charlock also and my sense is that this was an  
unequal forced pairing. While Ali's name hides reference to  
intelligence and victorious combat Charlock's name seems denigrating  
not sherlock or shylock but char lock, char equalling servitude or  
fuel.one might think of car lock or harlot or a demeaned form of  
warlock.

My thoughts on TK's name need further development but I feel the  
clues  and names that I am mentioning work suggestively well with the  
text so am posting for wider consideration.