Overton Window: Chapter 22-25
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sabotabbyChapter 22
Danny Bailey wakes up in Agent Kearns’ mobile home. Wearing Kearns’ pajamas. Perhaps my slash goggles are strapped on too tightly, but I’m choosing to read into that, mostly because there’s nothing interesting going on in the novel so I need to invent stuff, and also because they do have more chemistry than the two attractive, boring-as-shit leads. The reason for Kearns’ failed marriages and Danny’s rampant bigotry is that they’re both so deep in the closet that they’re chilling with Mr. Tumnus. It’s also the best explanation for what Beck euphemistically terms a “sleep hangover.”
Kearns is, shall we say, a bit odd. So far, he’s the only character I find remotely likable other than the guy in Times Square who told our two non-sexual lovebirds to get a room. He keeps a small nuclear device on his kitchen table. That’s pretty hardcore. Apparently it’s a bit radioactive but doesn’t actually work. Fake!Kearns claims that it’s one of the missing nuclear warheads mentioned in the prologue, though I don’t think even militia nutbar types would fall for that.
Nothing else happens in this chapter beyond banter that Beck probably thinks is witty. And there’s a cat that Kearns plays around with like he’s the villain in a Bond movie.
Chapter 23
Kearns and Danny spend Sunday afternoon getting to know each other. So sweet, you guys! I hope they live happily ever after in Kearns’ trailer with Mr. Bigglesworth the Ugly Cat. Then they call up the guys that Kearns is trying to catch, and they’re all excited to meet Danny. Danny, for his part, does not at all seem distressed about betraying the Patriot Underground, but that’s what love does to you.
He does seem to realize that all of the supposedly non-violent things he’s said could be interpreted as, well, violent to anyone who’s paying attention.
The last chapter where anything happened: I forget.
Chapter 24
In case you thought I was kidding about Kearns and Danny having a great deal of Ho Yay, or at least more sexual tension than Molly and Noah have, what happens in this chapter is that Danny gets some jitters about what he’s about to do. So Kearns pulls over, tells him to look outside, and they stargaze together.
Then, presumably holding hands and skipping down the road, they go off to take down all five of the militiamen. Except when they get there, they only find four. DUN DUN DUN.
Chapter 25
The militia guys are pretty lulzy. And apparently, they’re supposed to be lulzy:
Everything is better with LOLcats, even tired rehashing of the blood libel.
Then the boys show off their bomb (the fake one that fit on a kitchen table in a trailer), which supposedly will have a yield similar to the bomb that took out Hiroshima and is user-friendly to boot. Probably manufactured by Apple.
Oh, and we finally have a target: the office of the U.S. Senate majority leader. Beck even gives us the address for sympathetic readers who might want to, you know, visit a real location mentioned in their favourite book. Or something.
Danny Bailey wakes up in Agent Kearns’ mobile home. Wearing Kearns’ pajamas. Perhaps my slash goggles are strapped on too tightly, but I’m choosing to read into that, mostly because there’s nothing interesting going on in the novel so I need to invent stuff, and also because they do have more chemistry than the two attractive, boring-as-shit leads. The reason for Kearns’ failed marriages and Danny’s rampant bigotry is that they’re both so deep in the closet that they’re chilling with Mr. Tumnus. It’s also the best explanation for what Beck euphemistically terms a “sleep hangover.”
Kearns is, shall we say, a bit odd. So far, he’s the only character I find remotely likable other than the guy in Times Square who told our two non-sexual lovebirds to get a room. He keeps a small nuclear device on his kitchen table. That’s pretty hardcore. Apparently it’s a bit radioactive but doesn’t actually work. Fake!Kearns claims that it’s one of the missing nuclear warheads mentioned in the prologue, though I don’t think even militia nutbar types would fall for that.
Nothing else happens in this chapter beyond banter that Beck probably thinks is witty. And there’s a cat that Kearns plays around with like he’s the villain in a Bond movie.
Chapter 23
Kearns and Danny spend Sunday afternoon getting to know each other. So sweet, you guys! I hope they live happily ever after in Kearns’ trailer with Mr. Bigglesworth the Ugly Cat. Then they call up the guys that Kearns is trying to catch, and they’re all excited to meet Danny. Danny, for his part, does not at all seem distressed about betraying the Patriot Underground, but that’s what love does to you.
He does seem to realize that all of the supposedly non-violent things he’s said could be interpreted as, well, violent to anyone who’s paying attention.
The last chapter where anything happened: I forget.
Chapter 24
In case you thought I was kidding about Kearns and Danny having a great deal of Ho Yay, or at least more sexual tension than Molly and Noah have, what happens in this chapter is that Danny gets some jitters about what he’s about to do. So Kearns pulls over, tells him to look outside, and they stargaze together.
“Well, there’s only about three things to see out here in the middle of nowhere,” Kearns said, “but this is one of them.”
[longwinded description of pretty stars]
“Thanks, man, really. I was sitting over here in dire need of some perspective.”
“Sort of puts a guy in his place, doesn’t it?” Kearns said. “That’s where we all came from, out there, and someday that’s where we’re all going back.”
“You know? I saw it on your business card, but now I understand why they call you a special agent.”
“Well, son, whether you want me to or not, I’m going to take that as a compliment.”
Then, presumably holding hands and skipping down the road, they go off to take down all five of the militiamen. Except when they get there, they only find four. DUN DUN DUN.
Chapter 25
The militia guys are pretty lulzy. And apparently, they’re supposed to be lulzy:
I’m Ron, I grew up down near Laughlin and worked out here in the mines since I was a teenager. Married at one time, two beautiful kids, and I’ve been wise to those Zionist bankers and the good-for-nothing queen of England ever since I saw what they did to us on 9/11.
Everything is better with LOLcats, even tired rehashing of the blood libel.
Then the boys show off their bomb (the fake one that fit on a kitchen table in a trailer), which supposedly will have a yield similar to the bomb that took out Hiroshima and is user-friendly to boot. Probably manufactured by Apple.
Oh, and we finally have a target: the office of the U.S. Senate majority leader. Beck even gives us the address for sympathetic readers who might want to, you know, visit a real location mentioned in their favourite book. Or something.
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Date: 2010-08-27 12:15 am (UTC)If someone secretly inserted teh gay into Beck's book on purpose, I would like to shake his or her hand.
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Date: 2010-08-27 12:55 am (UTC)I love you.
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