W14 Part A/B Reading of Tales of the City

reading notes are from the final third of Tales of the City

• Wagnerian fog, I don’t know what that means but sounds ominous. 
• Carson Callas is super creepy, and Maupin just keeps adding on with his demeanor and looks.
• DeDe is really strong for dealing with Beauchamp, and staying with him to maintain family. 
• The way he says no to wanting a child is really hurtful to DeDe, she really deserves better
• Mary Ann is always like the naive rural girls when she sees city type things. 
• Writing a poem about Norman already, and they’re barely together. She moved too fast. 
• D’orothea and Mona seems like a relationship that’s just there because they knew no one else. 
• Mona should go back to living with Micheal, they’re two peas in a pod. 
• Back to Jon, fancy gay doctor, and now he’s at a gay party, but super fancy.
• “Where are the twinks, anyways?” I guess men are objectifying someone, even when gay. 
• They’re asking him about Michael, and he seems a little hung up on it. 
• Mary Ann and Norman at the art show, then going on a coastal walk, hmm,
• Norman is such a downer, getting complemented and adored, and he rejects it.
• D’orothea’s reaction to her parents, going stone cold, is suspicious. 
• Mona really wants to meet her friends and family though, and progress their relationship forward. 
• Brian’s quote is strong “I get the feeling that the New Morality is over” it kind of sums up the events of the story up to then and coming up too. 
• Back to Jon, and he’s on the way to the gay tub area, the same one where he met Michael. 
• Kind of true about the time how he reflects that a gay doctor is strange then, and a gay OB/GYN even more so. It talks about the pseudo acceptance in the city. 
• What a twist... the man Jon hooks up with and meets at the tub... Beauchamp. First he cheats with a girl, now with a guy. Can’t give poor DeDe a break. And he exchanged numbers. 
• Back to DeDe, and she notes how Beauchamp returned home at 4am, she knows somethings up. 
• Back to talking with Binky about the baby, and what she plans to do, I worry for her. 
• Oh she called the doctor back and is keeping the baby... but the doctor is Dr. Fielding.... that’s Jon. Only OB/GYN named Fielding so far in the book. 
• And Beauchamp has the gall to call him flirtatiously at lunch looking for a hook up. Shame shame. 
• It’s almost Christmas, and Mrs.Madrigal is having an apartment Christmas party, seems like that’ll be interesting. 
• I guess she’ll be going to see and hang out with Michael and the others 
• Mona is so sneaky, trying to get in contact with D’orothea’s parents behind her back! 
• And she lied to her about where she’s going to go meet up with D’or’s dad. 
• Her dad was not who she expected, a white man.