Post by CodyVanDer on Jul 5, 2009 10:36:07 GMT -5
From the Desk of Helen Steeply
This section is a series of snail-mail correspondences between Steeply and Marlon Bain.
The first one is a letter asking Bain to participate in the piece about Orin, then a letter from Bain saying he will. Steeply writes another letter full of questions. The section is concluded in Endnote 269:
Bain and Orin were inseperable from 10-15 when Bain got better at tennis than Orin, and also for a few months a couple of years later when they did drugs together. Bain doesn't know much about Himself's suicide. He thinks Orin and Joelle split up because she was spending so much time with Himself filming. He recommends taking Orin with a grain of salt, saying Orin "has come to regard the truth as constructed rather than reported." He tells about the time they were supposed to be watching Hal and Mario while the parents were away but spent the day getting high instead. When Avril got home and asked what they did all day and why she couldn't reach them on the phone, Orin said they had been making a lot of calls. Avril said that the line hadn't been busy, the phone just kept ringing and ringing, to which Orin said "I have to response to that." He also tells about the time he and Orin got high and took the car without realizing the dog was tied to the bumper. When they got back and the dog was just a bloody stump, Orin told Avril that it was a hit-and-run driver. He talks about indirect child abuse, telling about Avril's desire to not see her children suffer. "...the sort of philanthropist who seems humanly repellant not in spite of his charity but because of it: on some level you can tell that he views the recipients of his charity not as persons so much as pieces of exercise equipment on which he can develop and demonstrate his own virtue."
This section is a series of snail-mail correspondences between Steeply and Marlon Bain.
The first one is a letter asking Bain to participate in the piece about Orin, then a letter from Bain saying he will. Steeply writes another letter full of questions. The section is concluded in Endnote 269:
Bain and Orin were inseperable from 10-15 when Bain got better at tennis than Orin, and also for a few months a couple of years later when they did drugs together. Bain doesn't know much about Himself's suicide. He thinks Orin and Joelle split up because she was spending so much time with Himself filming. He recommends taking Orin with a grain of salt, saying Orin "has come to regard the truth as constructed rather than reported." He tells about the time they were supposed to be watching Hal and Mario while the parents were away but spent the day getting high instead. When Avril got home and asked what they did all day and why she couldn't reach them on the phone, Orin said they had been making a lot of calls. Avril said that the line hadn't been busy, the phone just kept ringing and ringing, to which Orin said "I have to response to that." He also tells about the time he and Orin got high and took the car without realizing the dog was tied to the bumper. When they got back and the dog was just a bloody stump, Orin told Avril that it was a hit-and-run driver. He talks about indirect child abuse, telling about Avril's desire to not see her children suffer. "...the sort of philanthropist who seems humanly repellant not in spite of his charity but because of it: on some level you can tell that he views the recipients of his charity not as persons so much as pieces of exercise equipment on which he can develop and demonstrate his own virtue."