BE ch 5 noir touch

[Joseph Tracy]

a few more noirish lines that seem to set up the exchange with Driscoll Padgett, where a distinctly different  post dot com vibe kicks in. Driscoll rings true.

" But it’s too nice, a sitting duck,”
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"try to summon the ghost vendor out of its nimbus of crafted silence."
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artificial bamboo trees framing a reception desk of wood blonder than the blonde stationed behind it,
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 the anthem of nineties workplace fecklessness, playing faster and faster and accompanied by screams of anxiety. Ghost vendor indeed. Has she entered some supernatural timewarp where the shades of office layabouts continue to waste uncountable person-hours playing Tetris?
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“That maybe Web design wasn’t really their main business?” The girl nods, consciously, as if somebody might be monitoring.

> On Nov 21, 2021, at 12:41 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> 
> Maxine goes to check out hwgaahwgh.com <http://hwgaahwgh.com/>  . Pronounced WOW? A pirate groan? any ideas on this name?
> 
> 
> "MAXINE APPROACHES the address from the other side of the street, and as soon as she catches sight of it, her heart, if it does not sink exactly, at least cringes more tightly into the one-person submarine necessary for cruising the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed that run beneath all real-estate dealings in this town.”
> 
> You know he felt prety good after writing that  classic  black humor noir style line with key Pynchon theme of real estate ponzi , a theme quite fresh when BE was published. 
> 
> "the sinister and labyrinthine sewers of greed”  yeah, 
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