In one passage Pikelet refers to himself as jailbait, are you concerned how people will react?
Well, I assume people will be pretty uncomfortable. Well, I mean, I hope so. What she’s doing with this kid is illegal and unequal and pretty damaging. He’s a child. Sando’s reckless with him in one way and she’s reckless with him in another. And Pikelet thinks these people are grown-ups. These are the folks he thinks are cool and sophisticated. He doesn’t yet see how flaky they are. He doesn’t understand how fickle and self-absorbed and deluded people can be. He spends the rest of his life trying to chew on that bit of gristle, to overcome his sense of aggrieved victimhood. Pikelet’s life doesn’t turn out all that well; he still hankers after the vicarious thrill. Are you implying that the ordinary, the ordered safe life is the best? As compared to disorder and early sorrow, you mean? Not completely. There’s no thesis here; this is a novel and I’m just reflecting on it after the fact like another reader. But from Pikelet’s experience he probably sees virtue in the safe and ordinary, e
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