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

[Joseph Tracy]

 Mike accidentally responded to one of my posts directly to me instead of the list. Below is that.


On Dec 13, 2013, at 1:28 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Windust is like a golem, animated by a little scroll with something on it in the nature of "free markets" or "austerity"...maybe American exceptionalism or triumphalism or maybe just a serviceable villain...
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> You ask a different question than the one I was wondering about: why is Maxine attracted to Windust...which see Brock Bond and Deuce...
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> But why is he attracted to her?  I think it's fair to say he's pretty important in the book...is it like some fatal attraction?  As a nonobservant Jew, although she's actually a fairly observant human being, is their intercourse, verbal and otherwise, some way she has of deactivating him? 
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> I don't mean in some kind of Magical-Hebrew way necessarily, as that idea is offensive even to me though I'm not real sensitive, but just some parts of the Jewish tradition or way of life, stuff like jubilees and not muzzling the ox that treadeth the corn, and the traditions of argumentation, scholarship, sort of antidote the kind of dogmatic fanatical tendencies that he embodies - or can do so, I'm thinking of this Jewish kid in our grade school, Bruce Hoffman, who got different holidays and stuff and didn't seem quite so in awe of the same authorities I was...
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> Like Windust's attitude on movies during the Cold War and how she meets it with an equally confident Logos, she's like, "Let's see what you've got, big boy!"  Or even, "you are so Wrong!" She's more than a match for his mojo...
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> So why does he pursue her?  He should be aware that she's dangerous, but he may be ignoring that danger while relishing the danger he poses to her. 
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> I'm attracted to, but feel I must resist completely giving in to, the idea of Maxine deactivating the golem of Friedmanite praxis, embodied in Windust from 9/11/73 to 9/11/01...with her magical Jewish intercourse...no, NO!...
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> Much truer to say that fraud investigation, here embodied in Maxine, eventually catches up with the lies behind forcible privatization, disempowering its dogsbodies like Brock Vond or Windust!
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