VV (16) Rachel and Fina

[Samuel Moyer]

From: "jbor"
>
> 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.

I can see it this way too...  It doesn't make sense that he would say to
Ruby: "How did you do it." unless he had been fooled in the past.  Unless he
means: how did you fool McClintic?  I still go back to p. 349 where he says
"I know a girl named Rachel...." and her response is: "Your wife wouldn't
like that too much..."  Of course he might be wearing a ring... and he did
use Rachel's full name and address...  It does say that McClintic introduced
them.

Now I am not even sure why I care, but I'd like to develop a clearer
understanding of why Paola is with McClintic, why she goes to all the
trouble.

Partly to avoid Pig Bodine and the Crew, maybe to avoid Profane (whom she
loves?)

Sam

>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