BEg2 chapter 9 probably no connection /BS & BSJ

[Mark Kohut]

"poised already for departure,"----departure, Deep Archer, all that going
away leitmotif in BE.....

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:13 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When I see “hawaldar” I’m prone to think “Cadwallader” which is Welsh or
> something for battle leader. Also the name of the last Welsh king claiming
> lordship over all of Britain.
>
> Almost certainly no connection. Offered as an impressionistic offshoot or
> tendril, if you will.
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> “…for it is who but the of course nowhere-near-history Horst Loeffler,
> showing up, like Basil St.
>   John in the life of Brenda Starr, unannounced, another year’s worth of
> lines deepening on his face, poised already for departure, while in the
> reverse shot the little polarized tear flashes, right on cue, appear along
> the edges of Brenda Starr’s eyelids.”
>
>
> Reverse shot in Wikipedia “a film technique where one character is shown
> looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other
> character is shown looking back at the first character (a revers shot or
> counter shot.) Since the characters are shown facing in opposite
> directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other. “
>
>
> So this is more of a reference to the movie with Brooke Shields? Or I guess
> the same technique applies in a comic strip.
>
> Basil St John with the romantic eye patch like Odin, gone on a quest for
> black orchids in South America for years at a time - Brenda Starr, girl
> reporter facing workplace challenges for women, undoing stereotypes, but
> able to carry on such a long distance romance and eventually consummate it
> in a wedding, to be congratulated publicly by President Gerald Ford. If
> this is foreshadowing, make the most of it!
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