VLVL (6) Working for the Man

[jbor]

on 2/10/03 1:36 AM, Paul Nightingale at isread at btopenworld.com wrote:

>> Frenesi is more or less one of those "ladies on strings", a
>> "snitch"
>> with a "photographic" specialty, if not memory.
> 
> What exactly does this description ("more or less") of Frenesi mean? What
> happened to the rest of the "ladies on strings" clause?

Frenesi's one of these "ladies on strings who'd been persuaded to entrap
soon-to-be ex-customers". See Frenesi's speech on pp. 70-1 which also ends
up with a fast food meal from the freezer.

> Then after the passage already quoted selectively, a new paragraph
> continues: "Or so they must have believed. But now, no longer on the
> computer, how safe could any of them be feeling?"

I quoted the list because it's a *selective* list, interesting in and of
itself. And the categories on this list resonate with the activities of many
of the characters we've been introduced to already.

The bit from the next paragraph emphasises that these petty crooks believed
they were safe in the "embrace and shelter" of the federal Witness
Protection scheme. It then asks, rhetorically, how safe they must be feeling
now that they are no longer on the computer.

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