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[Mark Kohut]

Runaround Sue was precociously Free 'N Easy (1961) and men didn't like it.

Dion is a seemingly contented usher in a Catholic Church in Delray Beach,
Fla said a
friend who has recently moved from there.....

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 12:39 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 37 degrees Fahrenheit Vs 37 degrees Celsius does seem like one of those
> clues that I would never twig to without some kind of a vademecum or Virgil
> or pony.
>
> Other things to remember to look for in the story would be the marital
> crisis. All I can remember is doesn’t the spouse have some kind of
> pre-Raphaelite name?
>
> And does the marital crisis center - in that respect similar to Flange’s -
> around oddball friends dropping in? A conflict between party time and
> quality time?
>
> And then weren’t there some critical takes accentuating an “upper
> room/lower room” dichotomy?
>
> Does that intertwine with the aforementioned Virgin/Dynamo/cybernetic
> dichotomy (pick two) or even trichotomy? (Upper room/lower room/world
> outside?)
>
> Can one ignore protestations of flat characters & feel something for them?
> If so, how/what/why?
>
>
> And can we fabricate some useful explication from the reference to Dion’s
> song “Runaround Sue?”
> https://youtu.be/nFch8vH81ks
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