BEg2 chapter 5 structure (1a - with detour back to ch2)

[Mark Kohut]

I never thought of hashsligerz as a publicly traded company. Did I miss
this fact?

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 2:23 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 53 - 54 Maxine’s looking at hashslingrz numbers
>
> - where does she get that raw data from?
>
> - they gave Reg “total access” to create a rah-rah paean to the company
>
> - probably didn’t expect him to peer into financials with the focus,
> similar to how he “subverted the diegesis” when bootlegging
>
> - OR, this history is *precisely why* they chose him.
>
> Gabriel Ice may or may not be complete villain, may be playing factions off
> against each other in a deadly serious game of Spy Vs Spy vs Repressive
> Elements in US Govt vs Russian State vs Russian mob vs Arabic Bloc et al,
> and may be looking for help like what they used to call “reaching out to”
> Reg, without explicitly saying so (like how Bigfoot Bjornsen “reaches out”
> to Doc Sportello)
>
> - or Gabriel Ice’s spouse & hashslingrz comptroller Tallis (name is Welsh
> for “shining brow”) may be the one who’s aware of Maxine via her mother
> March Kelleher (“the sisterhood”)
>
> - (“Your mission, should you choose to accept it…The Secretary will disavow
> any knowledge….”)
>
> - AND they even may be “reaching out” to Maxine specifically: if they are
> aware of Reg as “filmmaker with non-standard options”, then they may be
> aware he knows Maxine, and may be aware of *her* non-standard features -
>
> “The big selling point about a Certified Fraud Examiner gone rogue, she
> guessed, is a halo of faded morality, a reliable readiness to step outside
> the law and share the trade secrets of auditors and tax men.”
>
>
> - there would have to be some public data because hashslingrz is publicly
> traded (I think?????)
>
> - But Reg “has a guy” (Eric Outfield) so, although we’re not shown him
> actually passing a folder, a floppy, a CD or DVD to Maxine (or he could by
> then attach it to an email, etcetera) …
>
> - But if they are aware of Reg & Maxine they might know of Eric, so these
> numbers could be artifactual
>
> But you go into an investigation with the data you have, not the data you’d
> like to have!
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>