VL-IV: Moving right along... Chapter 9 - Back at it

[Michael Bailey]

Amy E. Vorro wrote:

> After she's kidnapped, DL meets another slave (a boy dressed as a girl)

wait, where's that? oh, page 135...never noticed that before...

> I'm always enthralled/alarmed by the short, but potent scene of the slave auction scene

so the people who kidnapped her, did they even know who she was? Maybe
they just saw her working out...
It wasn't directly Ralph's people, because he had to buy her (unless
he set the whole thing up to, I dunno, make it seem like more
fllattering?  That's weird, but it's also weird to think of a
white-slave racket taking young women from Columbus to Japan, and of
Ralph maybe getting their catalog in the mail and recognizing her.)

p 136 - the telecast of the Central League baseball game traditionally
cut off at 856 pm?  Is that something they do?  Or is that just
something they did to start the auction? (also, in the middle of a
double play - the novel is full of double plays in one form or
another)  I understand the ethos of baseball is quite different in
Japan...
John Bailey, did you watch any baseball over there?





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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."