Tonight We Are Young
This song has a strong effect to it. It should be used. Perhaps an evangelical version of it could be used in the story. A musical could be under preparation at the First Baptist Church. The words "Carry Me Home Tonight" are simply too powerful to ignore. Perhaps it could be the words of a pilgrim carrying the cross along a long road. [Work on this]
Google is a powerful corporation. They know people. They are in some ways Godlike. [Develop this further.]
HM's 1Q84 begins with an "Alice in Wonderland" beginning which draws the reader in. [What beginning will introduce this story?]
Love in the Western World and it's influence on Lolita: Is this story a postmodern Lolita [already a postmodern version of Tristan and Isolde, Theseus and the minotaur]. Bulls, buffalo, Longhorns are part and parcel of Texas [minotaur]. What about the forbidden love? Is it between Ozzie and AZ? Who does he have to destroy to defeat his maniacal passion? [Is AZ Lolita?] Who is Clare Quilty? (his wife who quilts) [the minotaur] Can this work?
Henry Russo. A former employee of the HPUWA. A painter. He loved to paint football and naked women among the prarie dogs. He ends up going insane and now resides in the Lubbock Sanitorium. Ozzie pays him a visit in attempts to find out about Florence Peacock (the mother of AZ) and why she left for Egypt. (sound right?)