STetc ch 36 more vagueness

[Michael Bailey]

I'm not criticizing the vagueness; in fact I am kind of, like, digging it.


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How Ace gets the address for the villa from parties unknown:

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He segues from "heartbroken as a cowboy in a song" about his lost Harley Flathead


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Into blaming Bruno

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And demanding escalating recompense:"dollars, dinars, Reichsmarks, or if necessary - such is the state he's worked himself up into - blood."

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Moving into direct quote of Ace: "Actually I can do without the blood, too much cleanup, just the sucker's head would be enough."

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Now, despite the fact that we don't know where he is or who he's talking to at this point (after all, this is just a quick dip into omniscient narrator territory from a conversation between Terike & Hicks)

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Nevertheless, an unattributed direct quote (like so many in the book, but usually it's pretty clear who th' heck's talking — not here, though) comes in response: "We don't do heads ordinarily, but there are people we could put you in touch with. Do you speak Albanian?"

(legendary viciousness of Albanian gangs - remember a few years ago, they were all over the detective shows, such as Law & Order, or Elementary?)

Echoes of other unattributable quotes: near the very beginning of GR, whoever it is who says, "You didn't really believe you'd be saved."