I think your right. I'll shut up now.


KRW

KRW is shuttin' up? This poor bluesman is scared! It's the End of the World! Yow!

I think the pregnant comment scared KRW, oops- sorry- did not mean to end the world

I think the pregnant comment scared KRW, oops- sorry- did not mean to end the world

Well, Charleswg, I wuz jes' riffin' there. Hard for me to imagine any scenario that would scare our gang. Especially KRW.

whew- I was worried there.
yeah- I have noticed the...forthcoming views of everyone, in the short time since joining the forum.

CG

whew- I was worried there.
yeah- I have noticed the...forthcoming views of everyone, in the short time since joining the forum.

CG

In any case, Charles, welcome. If you're a Paul Wilson fan, if you've got strong opinions, if you like to shake, rattle, and roll--yuv come tuh dez right joint!

thanks man!

thanks man!

My pleasure to welcome you to Paul's joint, Charles. You're gonna meet a lotta friends. And I'm talkin' =big mucho plenty=, you hang with the gang. But let me claim you as your foist buddy here.

I'm not quite done with Infernal yet. Coming onto the last few chapters now.

Didn't expect many replies nor this quickly, wowzer. What am I getting myself into!

It sounds like you think folks who like opera and art are not middle class. Is that accurate?

I consider myself solidly middle class and I attend opera occasionally. I also visit art museums. I even like to dabble in creating things, though I doubt anyone else would call them art.

Gia lives in her daughter's great aunts' mansion as caretaker, essentially, looking after the home because the aunts are "missing," though we all know where they are...or aren't.

I absolutely see Gia as a middle class farm fresh girl from the midwest who, through unforeseen circumstances, finds herself living in a fabulous house and who earns her living through her art.

I'm sure there are plenty of middle class folks interested in opera and art, but it seems predominantly upper class who attend all these events.

Yes Gia's just the caretaker; not actually the owner. But she has lived there a while now.

Farm fresh? Hmm I must have missed this bit of history.

Definitely could just be a matter of perspective, which is why I'm trying to gather other opinions. Always lingers in the back of my mind reading through the book in the past week or so that Gia is changing or seems a bit different.

I think he means, she's not really the country mouse anymore. She seemed a lot more self confadint than in previous books and we heard how she truley thinks of Jack. I don't think she could live in the big city and not be affected by it. I can tell you that is fact, (At least in where I'm concerned!)

Yes.

She's pregnant...how is anyone supposed to actually know how she acts or why? The character has to be a bit apprehensive that Jack is not legally a person...while being the father of her child.

Yeah could just be that.

I think we're talking about two different issues, Ken. I can see your point that Gia has grown up in terms of her relationship with Jack and all that she has seen and experienced as a result of that.

My posts have to do with Jake Badlands' original comment about Gia, stating that she is middle class and in his next sentence mentioning opera and art, as if they are mutually exclusive. IMO, they aren't.

I'm almost certain Gia refers to herself as being middle class in a sentence in Infernal. Will look it up.

There's another comment nearing the other half of the book where she talks with Tom and refers to Jack as being her 'rock'. Doesn't seem like her usual self.

Also thinking well back to The Tomb does Gia not attend a banquet or reception at the U.N.? Maybe as just a guest, but still..

I'm still having trouble picturing her as middle class without any attitude change.

I'm sure there are plenty of middle class folks interested in opera and art, but it seems predominantly upper class who attend all these events.

That may be so where you live but not where I live.

I'm still having trouble picturing her as middle class without any attitude change.

Sorry, I don't understand this statement.

I have to agree with Maggers there.... living in NYC area leaves you many options to be poor and middle class while at the same time letting you experience all the "upperclass" events like operas and plays and concerts...either by low prices or connections. Heck- this poor slob (me) has been to Avery Fischer Hall many times.
And afterwards I go to nice dive on the west side- Yogi's (76th and Brdwy).
see how easy it is?