BE: Chapter 12 (after one premature post).

[Joseph Tracy]

The question of whether she is being played is important to this scene, but also vague as to what Maxine means. I wonder what others think it means?  I guess I thought she meant Tallis is not the childish manpleasing ditz she seems, that this is an act.  On the other hand I don’t think Tallis does know the scope of what is going on, only that her husband can’t be trusted and is being secretive with a lot of money, and that her dumb act is working so far to keep her from trouble. 

> On Jan 5, 2022, at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The money is supposed to be earmarked for infrastructure"....
>> "unless he---Gabriel---is up to his eyeballs himself, of course".....
>> Which seems to be a new thought to Tallis.....
>> *Nothing in this fundamental moment is what it seems. [my italics]...*
>> Maxine thinks---figures out?---she is being played.
> 
> Marvin the messenger learns, mysteriously, of Horst's desire" ["This is
> desire".]....
> for that defunct ice cream and brings it unasked. Horst sez, "it's like
> Chinese medicine.
> Yang deficiency. Yin. One of them".....hilarious and does the Chinese
> allusion remind
> anyone else of the Golden Fang and it's mysterious cargo in Inherent Vice?
> 
> And then there is, over the top too much, this on the Easternization of the
> West.
> 
> 
> "Moving far beyond popular trends, Campbell assembles a powerful range of
> evidence to show how "Easternization" has been building throughout the last
> century, especially since the 1960s. Campbell demonstrates how it was
> largely in the 1960s that new interpretations in theology, political
> thought, and science were widely adopted by a new generation of young
> "culture carriers." This highly original and wide-ranging book advances a
> thesis that will be of interest to scholars in many disciplines in the
> humanities and social sciences"...
> McLuhan described this trend back in the '60s:
> "“The East goes outer with our old hardware as fast as we go on the inner
> cosmic trip of oriental fantasy with our new electric circuits and
> circuses. The West has ‘discovered’ the I Ching and a concern with the
> processes of hidden environments”. (McLuhan, Culture is Our Business, 1970,
> p. 2)
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