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If life
doesn’t cause him to retract his antennae, I think he’l...
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autistic?”
Your son is a little like a junkie kicking the habit.”
Connection to alcoholism?
He found gaps in the piled newspapers and records; nothing from 1937 to 1945, from 1957 to 1960, from 1962 to 1963.
It takes quite the time and effort to establish gaps - days even
Haha
the scrapbook.
“Unmask! Unmask!” The masks coming off and… (The Red Death held sway over all!)
See epigraph, loc. 91. Not a direct quote, here’s the last paragraph:
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death
He forgets the hubris, opulence, and of the characters in the story
Apparently a stand-in for Howard Hughes, who owned such enterprises and was said to have invented such a bra.
Charles Grondin,
Everything would go better with a drink, you idiot. It’s what happens after the first drink that’s the killer.
scabrous mess,
breadth of his responsibility to the Overlook. It was almost like having a responsibility to history.
people come and go…
Cf. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson (on my Kindle)
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
From The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot, these lines a sort of refrain in the poem of ennui and failure.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
See lute p. 227 of last paragraph here:
https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death
Robert T. Leffing,
Charles Grondin
Josh Brannigar,
Charles Grondin,
Charles “Baby Charlie” Battaglia,
Richard Scarne,
Age?
Peter Zeiss,
Felons aren’t allowed to have interests in legal gambling operations.
Vittorio Gienelli,
Carl “Jimmy-Ricks” Prashkin,
Why launder money *from* legal operations? Maybe tax evasi9n? But they *like* to pay taxes to legitimize their cash flow so they can launder money from illegal operations *into* the legitimate businesses.
Robert Norman,
P. 124
(Why are you here?)
(Why are you here?)
“Bluebeard.”
standing hypnotized before the bland gray locked door.
Simile. Or as the alcoholic’s desperate need for a drink
an ax in a glass case
Simile
He began to wish the hose would move, then at last he would know, he would be sure.
hysterically.
Behind him the sound grew louder,
She was prying, just the way she had always pried and poked at him when they had been at Stovington
Alcoholic think8ng
chewing them seemed to make them get to work quicker. He had read somewhere that chewing aspirin could become addictive.
Question?
Sylvia Hunter Derwent
What was Sylvia Hunter running up there in ’67 and ’68, Mr. Ullman? It was a whorehouse, wasn’t it?”
“No, I don’t think there are any ghosts.
Al Shockley
Grady?
(Why are you baiting him? Do you want to be fired?)
