BEg2 ch 12 babe in the window?

[Mark Kohut]

She is her own entrepreneur, no financial dealings--like a pimp would have
with her---with Ice.
Is how I read it but you may be right and it is ...different and very
loose....

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 5:20 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah and maybe that’s what’s meant - but - regardless of management
> structure or lack thereof - I want to know how that usage of “babe in the
> window” imagery can be said to relate to how Tallis used it: to connote or,
> like, illustrate, the wilful keeping of her, Tallis, in ignorance of
> certain financial details, by her husband and CEO, Gabriel Ice.
>
> I don’t think it can.
>
> Further, neither Google nor I has a better idea, so maybe we are to take
> Tallis as also with this phrase “playing dumb” and deliberately
> malaprop-ing “babe in the woods?”
>
> Maxine doesn’t buy it, at any rate.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 2:51 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Window prostitutes are not pimped (in general)....They show for
> themselves.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 1:53 PM Michael Bailey <
> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah but Gabriel isn’t pimping her, he’s just keeping her out of the
> >> business loop. So how does that compute?
> >>
> >> Babe in the woods, yes…
> >>
> >> I know the babe reference plays into her mannerisms and speech becoming
> >> more childish as she tries to lure Maxine into accepting an assignment
> >> that’s probably a trap - feigning innocence very unconvincingly —- but I
> >> would like it if there were some archetypal baby in an archetypal
> window -
> >> maybe a Grimm fairy tale - that she’s expecting Maxine to know about.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ear worm warning:
> >>
> >>
> >> All I can think of is “how much is that doggie in the window?”
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:44 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_prostitution
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 3:52 AM Michael Bailey <
> >> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Tallis: “I’m supposed to be the comptroller, but when I bring any of
> >> it up
> >> >> with Gabe, he gets evasive. I’m beginning to feel like the babe in
> the
> >> >> window.”
> >> >>
> >> >> Is “babe in the window” a thing?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Paucity of Google results, like 10 references to the same line in a
> >> song
> >> >> by
> >> >> Coffee Boi which didn’t come out till 2018 -
> >> >>
> >> >> And 1 to a cartoon of a “babe” (attractive woman) standing in a
> window
> >> and
> >> >> making a naive comment about the neighbor’s interest in telescopes
> >> >>
> >> >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/362719091129
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