AtD Sins of the Father.

[Mark Kohut]

More banal simplicities:  
Kit, maybe smartest one, wants to rise to the creative class. Gets bought by Vibe...(one question to ask, Who isn't bought by Vibe?) . 
 
Reef. Twice we read his anger was beyond its cause, close to nihilistic. The word used about the
group of Russian anarchists, 19th Century, who believed in the propaganda of the deed. 
See "The Demons".--"The Possessed", when I read it. 
 
Frank, styles himself the stupid bro, probably jokingly. Studies in Mining School. Most like Dad Webb?
He is the one who carries out the revenge killing of Sloat. He has "regret" for killing Sloat even before
he flees the town. Is this the narrator condemning such revenge?  

All brothers talk to the ghost of their dad. Like Hamlet does. Ghosts: restless spirits (as literary trope). 


Retribution. Jacobean revenge tragedy? (C of L49)  Also compare GR passim. 
Revenge = endless, Hatfield--McCoy-like feuds unless the cycle of revenge is ended. Some argue World Wars are that
writ large.  I have thought
that one meaning of the horrible deeds in "The Courier's Tragedy" in C of L49 is as a reflection
of the endless horror of History. The courier brings the news of death and retribution starts always and again. 
 
And/or as pacifists and advocates of political non-violence will say: Someone has to stop the cycle.
(Again, in another virtual aside in the subdesertine section, we are going to read of how weapons coudda
been given up back in history But for.........)
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