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> She knew, she  Learned to keep out of the way. Lesson One. (VL.74) 


Flash back to Zoyd up on the balcony in Hawaii, feels like Mildred
Pierce's husband, Bert. (VL57) 

[The movie/novel has to do with (is about?)  women and working.] 


Frenesi appreciates the comparison. 57

Zoyd ain't so stupid.   

But Frenesi Was a filmmaker, went to Berkeley, was, as Zoyd puts it, 
"Educated Pussy." 41

Van Meter's reply to this is, 

"You're blaming yourself for the kind of work she got into?" 42


Now to page 73

Frenesi, attempting a conversation about her Work with Flash. (Remember,
her folks would sit looking at each other saying nothing about their
WORK and Frenesi Learned to keep out of the way). 74

I'm gonna make this girl a tragic figure yet. 

So now she's working shifts  in a mall and collecting government snitch
money, living in public housing.  Her daughter, like her grandmother, is
now living on the road again. 

"Tough to admit," she tried once to confide in him,  "that those first
couple college jobs were as good as it's ever gonna get." 

She tried to confide in Flash. 

But Flash, god bless him, is not more appropriate for the daughter of
Sasha Gates than Zoyd Wheeler. 

All he can manage is, "Another pussy routine." 

Can't be easy to come home from the Mall and talk to Flash about ...
work. 

But Frenesi's parents did it so she can do it too.