BEg2 chapter 12 investigative spadework

[Michael Bailey]

I think the IV character is Sortilege (witchy woman
https://youtu.be/0Laqi_pfEo8 )
But otherwise, thanks for the insight!


On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:54 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Change your hair; change your life."---Solange from *Inherent Vice.*
> The East Side is the rich(er) side of Upper NYC. The society side. The
> women do their hair--more.
> The West side, the more liberal side, has women who let their hair down,
> in more ways than one.
>
> Leading me to some wonderful Google Boooks discoveries: this, an
> introduction to some ancient Greek poems:
> "Respectable ladies, the kind who wear hairbands and ankle-length skirts,
> arehereby warned off"
>
> Hairbands and hair scrunchies are used to wrap around a ponytail or bun
> for an instant, glamorous look.
>
> Hairbands are for the women who do more sport--manual.
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 4:32 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>
>> “She meets Tallis in  upper east side in enormous house after passing
>> through boring rooms with expensive but uniterestingly collected art.
>> Tallis says Gabe has weird demands, and they got to know each other at
>> Carnegie Mellon when he was using her room’s computer as refuge from
>> bagpiper, but they get along. Tallis says she and her mother hate each
>> other, and she hated fighting between her parents. She tells how March
>> is accusing Gabriel Ice of financial misbehavior larger than Iran
>> Contra. Tallis  either is or is playing the ditz and doesn’t really
>> want to know if finances at hashslingerz are clean Gabe Ice is evasive
>> about it.”
>>
>>
>> He probably graduated to using her room’s computer, but he was at first
>> using ones in the common rooms of various dorms.
>>
>> “the sound was enough to drive Gabe out to the computer cluster, which
>> still wasn’t far enough. Soon he was out gazing at student-lounge
>> television screens or using the facilities at other dorms, including
>> Tallis’s….”
>>
>> Also, I don’t think he was just studying comp sci,
>>
>> “…he quickly slipped into a tubelit clustergeek existence, often unsure if
>> he was awake or dreaming in REM, which might have accounted for his early
>> conversations with Tallis, which she remembers nowadays as “unusual.” She
>> was his dream girl, literally. Her image became conflated with those of
>> Heather Locklear, Linda Evans, and Morgan Fairchild, among others.”
>>
>> Which squares with libido expectations for a future mogul?
>>
>>
>>
>> CMU bagpipes major:
>>
>> https://www.cmu.edu/cfa/music/news/2009/carnegie-mellon-is-home-to-nations-only-graduating-bagpipe-major.html
>>
>> “The tradition of bagpipes at Carnegie Mellon dates to founder Andrew
>> Carnegie, who employed his own personal piper, said Alasdair Gillies,
>> director of Carnegie Mellon’s piping program and a world-renowned bagpiper
>> himself.
>>
>> Mr. Carnegie’s Scottish roots are apparent throughout Carnegie Mellon,
>> from
>> the school’s mascot, the Scottish terrier, to the student newspaper, The
>> Tartan, to the traditional Scottish dress worn by members of the school’s
>> “Kiltie” marching band. In 1990, the school instituted the world’s first
>> bagpipe degree, a major — complete with a designated need-based
>> scholarship
>> — focusing on both studio performance and the history and culture behind
>> bagpiping. Mr. Hudson is just the third bagpipe major to graduate from
>> Carnegie Mellon since the establishment of the program, though there are
>> two other majors now enrolled behind him.”
>>
>>
>> https://www.alexcooper.com/blog/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-cy-twombly
>> Hey, he was named after Cy Young!
>>
>>
>> “There is a Bösendorfer Imperial in the corner, at which generations of
>> hired piano players have provided hours of Kander & Ebb, Rodgers &
>> Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber medleys while Gabe and Tallis and
>> assorted
>> henchfolks work the room, gently thinning the checkbooks of East Side
>> aristos on behalf of various causes, many of them trivial by West Side
>> standards.”
>>
>> Kander & Ebb? Who they?
>>
>> https://www.theatretrip.com/musicals-by-kander-and-ebb/
>> Cabaret was by them!
>>
>> Generations of hired piano players? Seems like either hyperbole - or, the
>> piano predates the Ices with the connotation that prior to them it was
>> providing background music for some other 1% couples shaking down the
>> aristos for charity. For whom “Ice” would be an ok metonymy, denoting
>> their
>> diamonds and the probable temperatures of their hearts…
>>
>> Or maybe just the varying ages of the pianists for the different
>> engagements. They came from different generations but played the same
>> piano?
>>
>> Also - “gently thinning the checkbooks of East Side aristos on behalf of
>> various causes, many of them trivial by West Side standards.”
>>
>> So at least for Maxine, there’s a palpable difference between Upper East
>> and Upper West? Earlier in the chapter we get,
>>
>>  “ Maxine is no stranger to the Upper East Side, though it still makes her
>> uncomfortable.As a kid she went to Julia Richman High—
>>
>> well, she could’ve been on the natch once or twice—“
>>
>> [ where else would you get this joke, with this verbiage, “the natch,”
>> reminiscent of the rebooted Mucho Maas in _Vineland_?]
>>
>> “…over on East 67th, rode crosstown buses five days a week, never got used
>> to it. Deep hairband country. Visiting over here is always like stepping
>> into a planned midgets’ community, everything scaled down, blocks shorter,
>> avenues less time to walk across, you expect any minute to be approached
>> by
>> a tiny official greeter going, “As mayor of the Munch-kin City . . .”
>>
>> Hairband country?
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