GR translation: Snake the remittance horse

[Michael Bailey]

He consistently demonstrates a high level of awareness of past and present
goings-on

So I don’t want to read too much in, but I’m pretty sure there’s more going
on than I ever catch

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, didn't Thomas make it clear in those words he wrote as jacket and
> catalog copy that similarity to
> real events it WAS NOT, wnk, wink, showing us to look for the
> associational linkages?
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe Midnight was owned by the oil man or his cronies, and they didn’t
>> want the competition from Snake on the circuit?
>>
>> According to Wikipedia, Midnight’s peak years were the 1920s & ‘30s -
>> mostly retired in 1933 due to “ringbone disorder” and perished in 1936.
>>
>> Which fits with Tchitcherine’s Kirghiz posting during “early Stalin days.”
>>
>>
>> Midland, Texas triggers a reflex reference:
>>
>> There’s a historic home in Midland, Texas where Bush 41 & family lived
>> from
>> 1951-55 even though that may not be super relevant.
>>
>> He was an oilman…but not during the 1920s
>>
>> From Wikipedia, he doesn’t seem to’ve been super high profile either,
>> during the likely writing time of GR but ¿quièn sabe?
>>
>> “Following an unsuccessful run for the United States Senate in 1964, he
>> was
>> elected to represent Texas’s 7th congressional district in 1966. President
>> Richard Nixon appointed Bush as the ambassador to the United Nations in
>> 1971 and as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973.”
>>
>> I couldn’t find a Midland, Texas oilman from the ‘20s but I didn’t look
>> very hard…
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> > V342.10-18, P347.11-19   Tchitcherine’s horse is a version of himself—an
>> > Appaloosa from the United States named Snake. Snake used to be some
>> kind of
>> > remittance horse. Year before last he
>> > was in Saudi Arabia, being sent a check each month by a zany (or, if you
>> > enjoy paranoid systems, a horribly rational) Midland, Texas oil man to
>> stay
>> > off of the U.S. rodeo circuits, where in those days the famous bucking
>> > bronco Midnight was flinging young men right and left into the sun-beat
>> > fences. But Snake here is not so much Midnight-wild as methodically
>> > homicidal. Worse, he’s unpredictable.
>> >
>> > What's the rationale behind the Texas oil man's desire for Snake to stay
>> > off of the U.S. rodeo circuits? And what does it have to do with the
>> famous
>> > bucking bronco Midnight? I'm just trying to get a better understanding
>> of
>> > the underlying logic here.
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