TRTR Part I, Chap V, Pages 173-175

[Erik T. Burns]

Otto arrives at the Munks, first offstage, remembered, reduced:
"--Otto? Nobody's named Otto any more, he must be an impostor."

Well yes, a fake anyway, a phoney. Also ... "queer" -- the
pre-partygoers recall gossip of the era linking Wyatt and Otto as
lovers, also alchemists:.

"--You mustn't tell, but he's mixed up with an international
counterfeit ring, he makes gold down there, out of fingernail
parings."

That's Wyatt being spoken of, but it could just as well be Otto,
seeing as not too far in the future he in fact gets mixed up with a
counterfeiting ring.

Then Herschel mentions Esme, without naming her, as Wyatt's "skinny
little girl".

Battersea enamel box: a decorative item, like these: http://bit.ly/kE2h4b
There doesn't seem to be a direct reference for "We Live In Hope"
aside from a generalized religious sound to it, hope of the
resurrection, in the main.

More (fewer) babies: "--But ... you can tell me, why don't you just go
ahead and _have_ a baby?"

And then Otto appears: "how funny...how brown you are"

On the radio: The Academic Festival Overture by Brahms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8jeE-4k6o
Then "Alla-press, midi, dunfon" by Debussy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5A4CkUAazI

Otto's a baby too: "--Who's following you, baby?"

There's talk of banana plantations and revolutions, Otto's sling ruse
failing miserably as a conversation piece.

Then baby talk again for a second before:

"--Do either of you want to come to a party?"

It's for a painting, "L'ame d'un Chantier", which is _not_ the Soul of
a Singer, more the Soul of a Worker (Page 185) or even the Soul of a
Wreck (cf the annotations site).

Oddly enough, there's no real painting of that name.

Off to the Village then, to see it. "Everyone has a Village past. The
ones who stay down there just don't know it's past."

A phrase that works for Wyatt, but especially for Gwyon, up there in
his Village, increasingly unaware of his past.

Bonus: 79 Horatio Street, where Gaddis lived in his Village past:
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2008/07/18/on_the_auction_block_rare_gottleib_sale_at_79_horatio.php