BEg2 chapter 6 is full of interesting characters (part 1)

[Michael Bailey]

Well, it is!

Basically Maxine gets a paying client, Rockwell (“Rocky”) Slagiatt.

How does she do this? By doing extra diligence.

But first…

https://youtu.be/N5m5EtP6cMo


Chapter 6 characters

Pizza

March Kelleher - alumna speaker at Kugelblitz assembly - described by
Ziggy -

A website called Tabloid of the Damned

March’s family ties - daughter Tallis, son-in-law Gabriel Ice, two other
children, one in IT in California, the other the Fleetwood Vibe of the
family a wanderer in the East - reminisced by Maxine, who met March at a
demonstration against forcible co-opification

Dr Samuel Kriechman - predacious landlord against whom March demonstrated
(tried to sic his great-grandsons on her but she came prepared with an
aerosol bottle of oven cleaner to brandish)

Hector the bartender at The Old Sod

Leonard Bernstein, Robert Moses, Herman Göring - subjects of March’s
continued outrage at the demolition of a Hispanic neighborhood to make way
for Lincoln Center

Elaine and Ernie Tarnow - Maxine’s parents, known to March from previous
demonstrations against Reagan Administration depredations in Central America

Reg Despard with more data

Eric Outfield feeling threatened that Hashslingrz is cognizant of his
reconnaissances

Edward Altman  - in 1968, assistant prof of finance at NYU, inventor of the
Altman-Z score

Linus (Torvalds) Linux guy - passim

Gracie - aka Ol’ Pointy Hair - Reg’s ex-wife, now in Seattle with new guy
(Reg about to move there, he suddenly tells Maxine)

Rocky Slagiatt - proprietor of Streetlight People, former loan sharks,
currently VCs - venture capitalists, there may be a suggestion of
similarities betw the two…

His mother - he offers Maxine a joke plastic sandwich, claiming it’s his
mother’s pepper-and-egg sandwich

—- and Maxine likes this guy! ——

Cary Grant (movie star) - passim
Spud (Slagiatt associate) - passim
Wayne Gretzky (hockey player) - passim

Wells - chairman of the SEC Committee that proposed the “Wells Notice” kind
of kid-glove thingie where they notify a company like “we are thinking of
investigating you, esteemed sirs, if you don’t mind & if it isn’t too much
bother - do let us know if it is”

Cornelia - Rocky’s wife (and yet, Maxine still is thinking in terms of
getting horizontal with him) whose picture is on Rocky’s desk & of whom he
tells Maxine

“Not only a looker as you can see, but a elegant hostess from the old
school. Equal to any social challenge.”


        Gadzooks! Lots of characters. Gotta split…