BEER -- chapters 10 and 23 (possible spoilers) -- PROMIS 1.5

[Fiona Shnapple]

page 101. the end of a chapter. Maxine often wonders if her upbringing
on the UWS, Ernie's (her dad's) fables about capitalism, steered her
toward fraud investigation, her sister Brooke toward Avi and his
techie version of politics.

Elaine says Avi is just another computer guy, not very political.
Ernie (a teacher, professor perhaps, of media, politics or history
maybe?), thinks Avi is involved in software that annihilates Arabs.
Her mom, Elaine doesn't like Horst. She thinks Windust looks like a
good catch, the clothes, the suit, no wedding ring (top of 100). Are
these political parents, the parents who got arrested with March,
still on the same political side? It seems Ernie is not a Zionist,
right? He seems on the side of the Left of the Left Jews on the UWS
who see Israel as a threat (to Iran and to the US). Elaine seems to be
about matchmaking her daughters. So, she seems more progressive than
Heidi's mom, not a FOB of Eastern Europe on either side of the
arranged marriage madness. What about the Tosca allusion here. Ernie
suggesting that nobody should marry a Fed less they've seen it? And
why is he pushing Maxine to call Windust? In the end, Ernie says it
wasn't him but all those cop shows drove Maxine into Fraud. Something
ain't Kosher here, right?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Really good work.  The whole thing sets up a really weird tension. Maxine gets this from  hard rightist, hands-bloody Windust. Asks her Israeli brother in law about it, another kind of conservative; is following trail connecting Ice to US intelligence and possible software and bandwidth coup, with secret connections to Islamic banks. Ice has hired Avi.  She loves lefty parents who are divided on Windust and Avi.  Also is renewing friendship with March( on Washington).
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> Who's a girl to trust?  All of these conflicting and overlapping loyalties bearing no small resemblance to  US and international politics.
> On Dec 10, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
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>> If you have come this far with my PROMIS/BE series, you really need to read this:
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>> http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/new-afp-system-developed-in-israel-20130809-2rnth.html
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>> Thomas
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