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

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon has this 'insight' into certain kinds of women or else this 'slur'
against women in general:

They like, often against themselves, 'strong', tough, insensitive (to
almost be euphemistic) men, who might
also be described as arrogant, authoritarian men generalized with that
infamous line from Sylvia Plath: Every woman
loves a fascist.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 3:38 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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…
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