God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”
Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”
God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”
God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin’ you better run”
Well Abe says, “Where you want this killin’ done?”
God says. “Out on Highway 61”
Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldn’t give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said there’s only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run
Ol’ Howard just pointed with his gun
And said that way down on Highway 61
Well Mack the finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don’t ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61
Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light he says hmmm you’re right
Let me tell second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61
Now the rowin’ gambler he was very bored
He was tryin’ to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes I think it can be very easily done
We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway 61
I laugh every time I read the lyrics from Highway 61 that open Stop Me, which is how I sort of envision The MP ordering Vernon to fire me. It did not occur to me until deep into revisions how the PIP#1 meeting with The MP, On October 31, 2017, occurred two weeks after I refused/ignored The MP’s order to provide the false market share information to the Chairman of the Board (Grim Anniversaries, Chapter 7) on October 17, and the PIP#2 meeting with Vernon and Claire occurred on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, just a tad over two weeks after the “eat shit look for the ages” text exchange I had with Felix on Friday, November 2. As with everything else with The MP and his minions, it’s probably just a coincidence.
The Acknowledgement scene in Chapter 7 (Danger) is essentially the same scene as the appropriately-named Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before. Notice how in Acknowledgement, Damron immediately picked up on the pattern changing (that the MP makes small talk) but fails to draw the correct inference (that something terrible is about to happen).
I thought I was all clever and stuff when I made Stop Me a mirror scene with Acknowledgement and All is Lost a mirror of Night of the Long Knives (“nobody would believe me, I thought, who hadn’t been along for the ride”). However, really, the second half of Across This Antheap unfolded the same way as the second half of Destination Unknown, and the true events likewise. Claire replaces Jane as the person I pushed away, and Vernon replaces The MP as the antagonist.
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