V-2nd: Pondering Paola

[alice wellintown]

> Hod vis a vis Paola: someone who put her in the way of Benny (and the
> Jets...), brought her into the story, a survivor of long times on the
> rolling seas,
> certainly a repository of many forms of wisdom, I tend to like him in
> general but he is seen here robbing the cradle, and (as an avatar of
> Popeye) fallen away from his true love, Olive Oyl

Hod abuses Paola. She seems rather shell shocked, suffering from a
PTSD. Malta was bombed away. She seeks comfort, but finds none. The
men who chase her are all turned into swine.