Sure enough, just before sliding out the door, Der F.F. with a demonic grin screamed, "And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!" whereupon he disappeared, and it was a near thing that Lew got out with his keester intact.
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What did Thomas Pynchon have against Franz Ferdinand that he would libel him so? Being that I'm not one of those people who pretends to do their own research in the belief that it will make their subjective opinions seem more authoritative, I'm going to simply assume that Pynchon read a biography of Ferdinand and realized, at the core of the book, was the revelation that Franz Ferdinand was a gigantic asshole. Which then allows Pynchon to portray him, in a speculative fictional piece, in a way that says to the reader, "This never happened. Don't even for a second imagine this ever happened. But knowing Franz Ferdinand and how huge an asshole he was, it could have happened!"
At least this final sentence to the scene puts all of my confusion about Franz's previous actions to rest. He never intended to make peace with the locals. He never intended to make a gesture of goodwill. He never intended to do anything except be a huge disruptive prick.
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