V2nd - Chapter 14 basic time/space employment stuff (J.Y.B.D.R-T.)

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 00:44:24 CST 2011


> -- but apparently there is something apparent to the WSC ("if it were
> not here apparent that Benny Profane is heir apparent") that is not
> apparently to V.

(should read: "not apparent to V." of course)

> page 460
> - so like, V. is watching this happen?
> - - that's messed up
> --- (or is she in on it?)(nah)
> --  coroners are presumably not immune to bribery in 1913
> -- raspberry jam
> -- it's probably something V. cooked up with a lover other than V.
> -- she wouldn't have told Porcepic 'cos he was buds with V., right?
> - the sweet cheat gone
>

I've got a theory:
remember how old Satin did NOT go to the Black Mass, but sat there at
the table shuffling glasses with a murderous look on his face?
so - maybe he's a good guy.
and plus, he's like the choreographer, who better to work the
mechanics of it all, to help Melanie stage a fake suicide and get away
from V.?
Yup, that's my theory, and I'm stickin' with it.



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