ATDDTA(10) Mirrors Mirrors On The Walls [276]

mikebailey mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Fri Jun 1 04:04:46 CDT 2007


On Wed, 30 May 2007, Keith wrote:
> So what do you think this Wren-induced trip to a brothel is all
> about. Especially in light of the sexuality in the previous section's
> Unholy Trinity? While Lake is rather flat, one-dimensional, Wren is
> constantly transmogrified from scholar to whore to seeker. Why is
> Frank placed up against Wren?
>

How it must've been to grow up in that family:
they all sort of knew about the dynamiting, but
never,ever talked about it

-- good preparation for Lake's marriage

Frank, on track to be a mining engineer (so as to have
just a little more control of his circumstances),
is derailed by first Reef's attempted wedding, and
then Webb's funeral...

He's not the first good science major to get
corrupted by liberal arts prof




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