BEg2 chapter 3 water cooler talk

[Mark Kohut]

NYC Noir....the epigraph: New York city is the enigmatic subject which
isn't gonna talk---

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 10:03 AM Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

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