VLVL(5) Why Hawaii?

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In 1959 Hawai'i became the 50th State. 

Jetliners began regular air service. 

Rapid growth of the tourist industry. 

And the retail sales sector and construction industry. 

In the fifties and sixties  O'ahu residents used to joke that the state
bird must be the construction crane, so common a sight  was it on the
Honolulu skyline.

Sasha sends her daughter to Hawaii. Pays for the ticket. 

Maybe a vacation in paradise was what the girl needed to cure her post
partum depression. 

But surely Sasha knew what was going on in Hawaii. 

A a hollywood girl and a union sister she must have known that Hawaii
was the hot bed for organized labor. 

But Frenesi doesn't stay. Has she lost her gift? Her nerve? 

And Zoyd?  he just drifts from gig to gig. 

VL61

He bounced slowly from one Honolulu bar to another, allowing himself to
trust to the hidden structures of night in the city, to a gift he
sometimes thought he had to drifting, if not into intersections of high
drama and significant fortune, at least away, most of the time, from
danger.