BEg2 chapter 5 structure (1 of 2)

[Michael Bailey]

Loosely - it’s centered on Driscoll

Characters
Maxine
Driscoll
Two guys following Maxine
Bartender
Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt (mentioned)
Sahag (imputed via curlers)
Murray and Morris (hairdressers, names imply Jewish? Banter may imply life
partners?)
Cab driver
Giuliani

Train of thought -
Real estate
Detecting
Stuff about hashslingrz connecting some of the dots to the “intelligence”
community
Stuff about hairstyling phenomena
Evading surveillance to no avail
Nostalgia for the old Times Square (“Deuce” being ‘cause it was a 2 block
stretch)
Which it was kinda sucky but she was used to it
Now it’s going to suck in a different way?
She’s drunk

Pizza for dinner (too buzzed & late to cook) whoops! That’s chapter 6!


Locations -

Presumably her office crunching the #s

Across the street from the office building formerly housing hwgaahwgh inter
alia - downtown - which is where again? I think of Manhattan as one big
downtown but Wikipedia helps with “south of 14th street”

Figurative one-person submarine manifested around her heart when witnessing
the tragedy of perfectly good buildings likely to be soon replaced by
soulless profit centers (and, implied, other tragedies in the Naked City)

Lobby of bldg looking at directory
Elevator with a porthole
5th floor offices of hwgaahwgh
Fabian’s Bit Bucket - bar (connotations of Fabian Society? Fabian the pop
star? Fabian the Italian name?)
Taxi
Times Square
Subway
C Train
The Dakota
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