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[Joseph Tracy]

Yes maybe real readers just interpret all the actions in a novel according to their own code. Don't believe anything you read; it was all made up by the kind of person who may well have been trying to fool you. 
On Nov 26, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> Who would take a shot at her? Again, page and passage is helpful. Why
> would anyone take a shot at Maxine? Something she said? Did? Or did
> she walk on to a Law & Order set? Maybe she's just paranoid. Maybe
> she's part of some grand delusional conspiracy of her own middle aged
> paranoia and creeping boys of entry level adulthood she works with.
> She is, after all, in that middle age stage that Otto Kugelblitz calls
> the paranoid stage. And Reg and Eric are not quite grown ups.  Way
> back in Ch 2 when we meet Reg Despard, the movie pirate, who tells us
> he has a boy genius in IT working on the case, we discover that the
> entire paranoid investigation springs from a film that Reg is
> shooting, a documentary about a computer-security firm downtown called
> hashslinggrz. Work is work. Right? Maybe not. So Reg just wants to
> know who he's working for. Outfield and Despard creep Ice & Co.
> through the system, but get locked out of the private vaults where,
> well, the company, a security firm after all, locks up its private
> doings. Though Maxine says she would prefer to kick back like Angela
> Lansbury (Jessica Fletcher, Murder, She Wrote, English teacher,
> Novelist, amateur investigator who one-ups the professionals), she
> packs a gun, and Reg, well, he got the academic's attention with his
> neo-Brechtian subversion of the diegesis, is not gonna settle for the
> promotional documentary he's been hired to produce, he feels like Erin
> Brockovitch.
> 
> Maybe these guys are looking for more violent scripts? Maybe it's a
> pyramid scheme. Like, is Maxine working for reg now?
> 
> Maxine does still have that concealed-carry permit.
> 
> Kick back like Angela? Right.
> 
> Clearly, ''Murder, She Wrote'' does not dabble in MTV flashiness or
> special effects. The basic form of the show predates broadcasting. The
> standard ''mystery'' of literature and early films became a staple of
> radio in 1930 with the introduction of a series featuring the exploits
> of - who else? - Sherlock Holmes. The heyday of radio in the 30's,
> 40's and early 50's was crammed with mystery formats, from Nero Wolfe,
> Sam Spade and Bulldog Drummond to ''Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost
> Persons,'' ''The Shadow'' and ''Casey, Crime Photographer.'' And
> television, of course, has been awash in mystery/suspense shows. In
> the earlier years, there were ''Martin Kane, Private Eye,'' ''Alfred
> Hitchcock Presents'' and such offbeat efforts as Blake Edwards's
> ''Peter Gunn,'' in which Craig Stevens hung out at an eccentric jazz
> club named Mother's, and ''Richard Diamond, Private Eye,'' featuring
> David Janssen with a mostly unseen secretary named Sam, whose legs
> belonged to Mary Tyler Moore.
> 
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/arts/tv-view-it-s-fun-and-it-s-not-violent.html
> 
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Er, for one, Maxine is being shot at?
>> 
>> Am 25.11.2013 22:06, schrieb Fiona Shnapple:
>> 
>>> And there safety is threatened by? Page and passage, please.
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