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When Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary, I wonder if he could ever have imagined how many different girls and women would turn out to be like Emma…
So many of us still are.
Stacy has her head filled with Linda prompts and Linda information…add that to wanting a boyfriend, wanting to be held, and wait, I forgot the rush of hormones; it’s not surprising that Stacy wants to try out this whole new world that supposedly waiting for her.
When this comes up (Richard’s preferences) I idly speculate if he was asexual, because this too is a possibility for people.
He may have been traumatized as a younger person.
I don’t think about it for long, because I feel like a voyeur; that’s just me. If his actions affected my life directly, then perhaps I’d…no.
That part of his life belongs to him.
My first thoughts, too.
But maybe he will start advancing through the Department, because he’s good at his job.
Then they’ll split, because LE marriages always do in most books and movies.
But who knows?
The Happy Man is very important.
He’s a one man Greek Chorus.
And the strawberries can’t be those big spongy ones. They have to be tiny and dense; then they are sweet.
The bubbles really matter, too.
Prosecco can give people headaches.
It’s all about what people like, I guess.
It’s very difficult because actually she would be moving up to a mistress or courtesan—but that’s where she’d stay. She’d have to be available to him for paying attention to him, lavishing affection upon him.
Pretty soon she might turn to substance abuse. Maybe not thus character, but some people
might.
I’ve always had the feeling that Kit stays right there. Because Edward gives Vivian $3000.
Vivian goes back and gives Kit
some additional money, but it can’t be that much. Cocaine is a part of Kit’s life…
Kit is not going anywhere, yet. But the possibility is occurring to her and that’s what the audience hopes will happen, eventually.
In French, this is an established term.
Jolie-laide https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jolie-laide-212693
For women and men.
I was about to say this. Women also hire escorts for this reason.
Stuckey is the bad guy because as Edward tells him just before tossing him out of the room:
(Paraphrased)
“I made you rich doing what you like best.”
Stuckey likes to tear people and I places down for the cruelty of it, not even the “progress” or “bidness”, or returning profit to the investors.
He freaks out because he’s been able to get his jollies all this time and nobody knows…but Stuckey is a junkie and the MOMENT the Morse deal starts slowing down, and that neuro chemical rush —watching people and established companies crumbling— isn’t arriving on schedule, and hen shows signs of not coming through, Stuckey starts jonesing, hard.
That’s why he shows up to terrorize and rape Vivian.
Atrocious at the plot point is, Stuckey is actually “making do” with one being.
He’s used to thousands of people crying at a time as he removes the reason for their job and town existing, for a quick profit.
He wants his fix and she’s the reason he just lost his best connection to his rush.
Edward calls it earlier:
“We both screw people for money.”
Stuckey sees himself as Edward’s pimp. Edward has made him a lot of money and got him off, reliably.
Vivian just helped Edward cut loose.
So Eleanor, in a way, is a cousin to Emma Bovary.
Both are given glimpses of excitement and romance that are always just out of reach.
Because hormones are a hell of a drug.
I wondered about the game machine and finally got the point.
I used to be good at playhouse claw machines but I think the people who ran the machines allowed people to grab something enough to keep us coming back.
But there’s lots of claw machines that have all the adjustments loosen here, let go there so that the only way anyone is going to get anything out of that machine—-us if it tips over and breaks ;)
It’s a Catch22, isn’t it?
There’s more attention to many syndromes now, but the beings attached to those syndromes still languish in largely private, some public institutions across the country.
The only way to make a rescue, sanctuary, boarding place work reliably, so that it can be depended upon, is to have some sort of established time-connected routine in place; stay with me; I didn’t say it has to be a routine where one can feel the rebar crushing the spirit out of everyone.
The reason for the routine is to support the goals already reached and to give everyone the hope of reaching new goals: In a place similar to Raymond’s institution, one of those goals is probably for the adult residents to rediscover how much functioning ability they DO have, with the hope they can live either on their own, or in an environment of increased independence.
But you bring up a GREAT point. The doctor himself seems to have established that routine as a comfort zone for everyone in the institution and that’s that, baby. He’s worn out. The actor does a good job. One empathizes with him; one is exasperated with him.
But you see: The doctor hasn’t had the ability to do “one-on-one” work with all the residents, either.
Kind of heartbreaking, isn’t it?
Someday, someone will be as dismissive of what this generation thinks is the absolute best.
All goes around.
As in opium pipe, but oddly predictive, all the same.
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