VV (16) Rachel and Fina

[jbor]

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>From: "Samuel Moyer" <smoyer at satx.rr.com>
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> At some other place Roony and Pig have had a fight
> over Paola (over Mafia, but they both knew they meant Paola).  When he sees
> Paola as Ruby he doesn't even flinch.  He seems to accept that McCintic has
> won her.

I got the impression that Roony didn't recognise her at first, and that it
wasn't until McLintic leaves the room and she starts singing a song (which
starts off like 'Mocking Bird') to him that he twigs. Then there's that
interesting discussion about how she used burnt cork, like "a minstrel
show", to make herself look like a Negress (to fool McLintic?), but I think
she is being facetious. Roony then comments how she is chameleonlike, asks
if she is in fact "something we can look at and see whatever we want", and
then she talks about Maltese ethnic hybridity.

It's an interesting exchange (350).

best