TRTR chapter 5 partial census

[Michael Bailey]

Maude Munk - got a bad back, wants to get paid off,  into phrenology
Arny Munk - drinks, regrets it later, has a rupture

(MAD Magazine ties this in with end of world thread, in a spread on
scuba diving, years and years ago - an illustration of a diver with a
dazed expression captioned, "Rapture of the Deep", followed by another
expression of the diver holding his crotch, captioned, "Rupture of the
Groin")


Sacred Heart Adoption Center - so now the sacred heart has appeared
perhaps as a spider in chapter one (thanks, David Morris, I really
liked that pic) -- and also in chapter 2 as a cathedral with strong
Jesuit backing -- and in chapter 5 as an adoption agency -- we
Presbyterians didn't really have a heck of a lot of iconography, some
good hymns though including "O Sacred Head" but sacred heart seems to
be important in this book, relatively new to me although I did notice
a Catholic friend's Sacred Heart amulet once years ago.

Herschel - the only boy to own dinner clothes in his hometown in Ohio,
so he had to move to New York I guess.  (Herschel was the astronomer
who discovered Uranus, wasn't he?)
Herschel is, or was, a speechwriter for a Senator, right?  And his
analyst killed himself.

Adeline - a blonde

a cockroach

Rose - back from the teehee farm and Esther has to take her in

Esther's unborn child - hypothetical, at this point (hearsay)

Otto - back from the tropics and funnier than ever

bereaved Italian family downstairs - their spray of flowers was
purloined and brought to the party "gaily"

several people described by their characteristics but not named:
tortoise-shell glasses, beard, sun-tanned woman in a white dress -
oops, that one's Agnes Deigh

Charley - guilt-ridden bombardier

Hannah, she's quite the talkative one!

Emu cigarettes, seems like Camel stole a few design tips from their pack maybe?

Anselm - young man in need of a shave and a candidate for
dermabrasion, brings up material from De Sade although carrying a
"yellow book" (evidently de Sade) sort of conjures Aubrey Beardsley
and Oscar Wilde. Juicy gossip about a critic and the Sunday roast (the
*Sunday roast*????!!!!!) and the betrayed wife shooting herself....

Stanley - all of a sudden there's Stanley on page 182 and he, unlike
Herschel, has a round head.  Also a big mustache. Writes organ music.
Mother tragically ill.  Hannah tries to fend Anselm off of Stanley,
but to no avail.  Stanley is reading, and carrying - to the party -
wow, literary New York - a book by Malthus!

(oh, back in Chapter 2 the art magazine was called Die Fleischflaute,
which probably rates a more legitimate snigger than "organ
music"...still, organ music?)


what a brouhaha!