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DITW 14-22: Odyssey 17

🕑 Added 2024-06-15 17:00:13 +0000 UTC

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Bill F Protagoras

Ojalá!

JL23

Given we have a good bit of this book left, I’m assuming that Kimmy’s plan to “protect” Hyun and hide their relationship is going to backfire spectacularly on her. It kind of has to, right? In real life, it doesn’t always, but in this particular story I can’t see her being able to keep it from Josh. It wouldn’t surprise me if Hyun herself was the one to out it, especially if Kimmy tries to pull away from her. But I mostly agree that Kimmy has been chastened by the events of the weekend. While she’s still lying and manipulating, she also does understand that she allowed herself to get corrupted by the bullies and it impacted how she viewed and treated Josh. I remember how she talked about Josh in the middle chapters, she oozed condescension toward him for a lot of it. She talked about having him go with Devlin to the Jays game (a pivotal moment in Josh’s awful awakening) as being “good” for him, that he needed to be “challenged,” or words to that effect. Or how she talked about Josh in the Caymans, or when she recorded that first audio with Devlin in the apartment (there are now at least 3 different recordings/videos she’s made “for” Josh), or other times as well when she allowed herself to participate in talking down about Josh with Devlin. He truly had her buying his line of thinking about Josh in those middle books. She realizes it now even if it may be too late.

Andrew Mellein

Hopefully a new chapter today?

Bill F Protagoras

“Either way,” he said, “we’re just two mean kids pushing him around, having the time of our lives doing it.” Sub Principatu Diaboli Kimmy never showed off to intimidate or to 'really' bully or to convince Josh she is superior to him (except in the moot case of her vague superior 'strength' theory). She may have become a selfish conniving adulteress but behind her 'strengths', she hides that great cowardice that would earn most normal human beings a blushing red "A" on their cheek... Shame. She has been mean, egotistical, cheating BUT since she was shocked into recognizing she had been genuinely browbeating and bullying the man she loves through her own misconceptions, she has been desperately back peddling and trying to mend her ways, because she is 'A'shamed of what she has been doing. Unlike the real mean kids she is obliged to pass her time with right now! Those who are still profoundly dominated by childish insecurity. PS Kimmy's frivolous lawyer fantasies about using video 'proof' to hide her sexual indiscretions show how her professional hubris is deceptive. If anything could ruin her relationship with Hyun, it might well be those very same videos! Yet her first vain fleeting idea was about Josh and staving off losing him. That is only a theory off the top of my head! Kimmy is no evil mastermind... though she is at least struggling to leave the alchemy of adolescence behind. She saw mean kids were her enemies not her rivals... and she seems determined that they should remain so in the present... You know what I'm talkin' about dontcha Josh? Though she is still an obsessive hider... which is of course one of the greatest skills we have all had to develop since the advent of language. Fruit of the knowledge of good and evil is a great euphemism for language. Great joke prime mover! You taught us language according to the religion of our choice and now we use it to eloquently curse! Mouthpiece is a good euphemism for someone who talks for another person. Though probably not the first association that springs to Devlin's mind (I plead the fifth!).


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