BEg2 chapter 3 water cooler talk

[Keith Davis]

Agreed that noir is a good genre for BE, though only one among maybe several, as usual with Mr. P.

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> On Nov 13, 2021, at 3:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "Pinot gris [pinot grigio]  is considered an "early to market wine" that
> can be bottled and out on the market within 4–12 weeks after fermentation.
> [38] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinot_gris#cite_note-38>
> 
> Started selling like the cool new thing @2005 in the US, wikipedia says.
> Prices vary but basically is a cheaper wine in general.
> Synonyms
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 2:13 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> On the second day of Daytona’s tenure with Tail ‘Em and Nail ‘Em Maxine
>> vented about Horst:
>> 
>> “…there I go, whining again.”
>> 
>>     “Oh, I thought it was this fridge.”
>> 
>> 
>> Builds the scene - she’s got an old, noisy fridge in the office.
>> 
>> One of the best things about cozy detective stories with a touch of noir (a
>> category I want to suggest as one of the easier niches in which to place
>> BE, and a genre I want to champion as being much more user-friendly than
>> pure noir) is the office of the investigator. Even a few more details will
>> limn it enough to make the story filmable (imho.)
>> 
>> Can’t remember if we get them.
>> 
>> That conversation occurred on Daytona’s 2nd day - not overly formal, then.
>> 
>> 
>> The current conversation, after Reg’s departure, sparks into being over
>> Maxine’s search in the aforementioned refrigerator for some wine.
>> 
>> Pinot E-Grigio - bupkis, that’s what I know about wine. I think it’s a
>> white wine. Probably expensive.
>> 
>> Maxine’s comments to Daytona do not seem especially woke. In fact,
>> somewhat rude, and potentially triggering to someone in rehab.
>> 
>> Context being important, with her knowing Daytona’s upset, may she actually
>> be trying to get her to spill?
>> Or take her mind off Reg and his problems - he warned her to carry a gun?!
>> 
>> She can be rude, but she’s not unsympathetic.
>> 
>> Daytona gives the rudeness back, more cleverly than Maxine. We knew she was
>> feisty when we walked in with Maxine in chapter 1.
>> 
>> And, she does vent about the Jamaican fellow with whom she has problems
>> similar to Maxine’s with Horst, although his wayward love seems to be for
>> ganja (clashing with Daytona’s 12-step pledges) rather than for women named
>> after cigars.
>> 
>> “ Do not, ever, associate with nobody from Jamaica the island, he thinks
>> joint custody means who brought the ganja.”
>> 
>> Jamaica the island as opposed to Jamaica Queens.
>> 
>> Also, Maxine perceives Daytona’s sharing as “the usual emotional cash-flow
>> statement, full of uncollected receivables and bad debts” -
>> workplace coloration of the narrative!
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