VLVL2 (2): Handshakes

[Tim Strzechowski]

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> (17.6) "Isaiah, in their greeting, wanted to slap and dap ..."

http://www.courier-journal.com/features/2001/10/fe20011001.html

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> Cf. Zoyd's meeting with Hector (11).
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[...] "First there was the thumb-clutch, a "cool" version of the basic
handshake." [...]
http://www.s-t.com/daily/03-98/03-21-98/b01li080.htm


Perhaps also of interest, given P's mention of "Masons" in his work:

Secret Masonic Handshakes
http://www.ephesians5-11.org/handshakes.htm

Interestingly, Zoyd and Prairie are focussed on watching the TV footage of
the window jump until the panel of experts comes on, at which point when a
discussion of personality characteristics via window jumping techniques
comes on, they zone out (p. 15).

I'll bet there is some interesting psychology behind handshakes (and twice
now, Zoyd has made hand contact with others):

http://rebrown.com/rebrown/handsh.htm

Since hands are frequent images in literature, used to convey personality
traits, attitudes toward self and others, etc. (and _Of Mice and Men_ and
_One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest_, as well as most Shakespearean works, come
most immediately to mind in terms of recurring hand imagery), it might be
worth following this image as it develops over the novel.

How do characters use their hands?

How does their hand use reflect the notion of WORK in the novel?

Do hand descriptions somehow parallel personality traits?  Alliances?
Attitudes?