Back to AtD Reimann maths ain't life. p.891

[alice wellintown]

> a trainer of desert eagles (why desert eagles?)

"...and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive
down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become
invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the
gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest
swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the
plain, even though they soar."
-- Herman Melville

But this is not to be; the allusion here is to Yeats.
http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html