GRGR(8): Leni's employment?

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Aug 16 02:03:30 CDT 1999



On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Jeremy Osner wrote:

> 2 references in this episode I'm having a hard time parsing are, p. 136
> "...to show something of how she felt about the night's clientele..."
> and p. 137 "In Leni, now, nothing of her long employment shows,
> nothing."
> 
> Is Leni fantasizing that she is a prostitute?


Or, you could read "long employment" as being her revolutionary
employment. Which her heart is not really in, but always elsewhere. With a  
worthy lover? 

			P.




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