ATDTDA (14) p 400-401

mikebailey at speakeasy.net mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Thu Aug 2 07:33:00 CDT 2007


btw - I saw a contrabass Saxophone once.
It really is "A spectacular piece of hardware"

The Lollipop Lounge evokes (a little) the cantina 
in the 1st Star Wars movie.
Perhaps it's meant to - like Loafsley's accent,
emphasizing that this is a different culture. 
Mrs Grundy need not apply.  

Angela Grace doesn't have many lines: 
"Evening, boys," and "Oh, poor baby, let me
kiss it?" but it just seems like to me that 
when Plug says she's "on the house" 
he means her chanteuse services...

I'm more of a Lindsay Noseworth, glad
of the caesura after line 8.  We don't know for sure just
what Darby did, or tried to do, or even wanted
to do...maybe they stayed at the table, 
and within the boundaries of decorum.

still, the place is described as a "child bordello" (398)







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