This is a good time to recap what's happening to everyone in Doug's story so far. It's easy to lose track when you have more characters than a Dostoyevsky novel.
There's Charlie and Charlie is dead. This much is certain. There are serious questions about whether it was suicide or not. We know that there was a scream noted by a couple of neighbors around the time of death - very early in the morning - and that his apartment door was likely ajar. We don't know, however, whether there was a note, and, if there was one, we certainly don't know if it was indeed written by Charlie or part of the set-up to make it appear like a suicide - if indeed it was a set-up. This confusion is in part stemming from incompetent policing as well as from a podcast.
There is Doug. He is trying to get a job, unhappy about the Charlie situation, confused about a crow, and wondering what to do next. He breaks his pact with Godot.
Godot, whose name is not actually Godot, but who is Doug's friend and banter partner. They take turns calling each other every day. They like to keep it old school. Godot doesn't understand Doug's obsession with Charlie's death and has become restless since Doug stopped calling. He wants answers and hopes he will find them by reliving the past. He is willing to find them anywhere, be it in a risotto or in books, or even reveries about his ex.
Marta who works with the police in their data entry department spoke about Charlie's death to some friends. She regretted spilling the beans and anticipated that the story would now get out, but not in the way it has. The story - a different version from hers - was brought up on a true crime podcast. Weird.
Charlie's mother, Mrs. Lansky still has Charlie's phone. She called Doug one more time after their first call. It's not clear what was discussed but it didn't make Doug any happier. Nobody likes funerals though, do they.
Our last set of characters are Jack and Jenna, an influencer power couple, Emily, their (Jack's) assistant, and the writer who is ghostwriting Jack's autobiography, as well as the writer's girlfriend who plays a devil's advocate role to his writing life.
Jack is a jacked internet bodybuilding influencer who donates his muscles so that poor Americans have something to eat. This is how we know that there is a dystopian element to this story; cannibalism. There is more to Jack, but Jenna- who is Godot's ex - controls his life and has made him a shell of a man. As his autobiographer says about Jack, "he is muted". Emily, Jack's assistant, dotes on him and loves him as somebody might love a dependent, say their child or pet. To both Jack and Emily the time when she had to wipe his ass while he was incapacitated carries a special kind of significance.
But perhaps none of this is important, because, as the ghostwriter/editor explains to his girlfriend, "Nobody reads."
There's Charlie and Charlie is dead. This much is certain. There are serious questions about whether it was suicide or not. We know that there was a scream noted by a couple of neighbors around the time of death - very early in the morning - and that his apartment door was likely ajar. We don't know, however, whether there was a note, and, if there was one, we certainly don't know if it was indeed written by Charlie or part of the set-up to make it appear like a suicide - if indeed it was a set-up. This confusion is in part stemming from incompetent policing as well as from a podcast.
There is Doug. He is trying to get a job, unhappy about the Charlie situation, confused about a crow, and wondering what to do next. He breaks his pact with Godot.
Godot, whose name is not actually Godot, but who is Doug's friend and banter partner. They take turns calling each other every day. They like to keep it old school. Godot doesn't understand Doug's obsession with Charlie's death and has become restless since Doug stopped calling. He wants answers and hopes he will find them by reliving the past. He is willing to find them anywhere, be it in a risotto or in books, or even reveries about his ex.
Marta who works with the police in their data entry department spoke about Charlie's death to some friends. She regretted spilling the beans and anticipated that the story would now get out, but not in the way it has. The story - a different version from hers - was brought up on a true crime podcast. Weird.
Charlie's mother, Mrs. Lansky still has Charlie's phone. She called Doug one more time after their first call. It's not clear what was discussed but it didn't make Doug any happier. Nobody likes funerals though, do they.
Our last set of characters are Jack and Jenna, an influencer power couple, Emily, their (Jack's) assistant, and the writer who is ghostwriting Jack's autobiography, as well as the writer's girlfriend who plays a devil's advocate role to his writing life.
Jack is a jacked internet bodybuilding influencer who donates his muscles so that poor Americans have something to eat. This is how we know that there is a dystopian element to this story; cannibalism. There is more to Jack, but Jenna- who is Godot's ex - controls his life and has made him a shell of a man. As his autobiographer says about Jack, "he is muted". Emily, Jack's assistant, dotes on him and loves him as somebody might love a dependent, say their child or pet. To both Jack and Emily the time when she had to wipe his ass while he was incapacitated carries a special kind of significance.
But perhaps none of this is important, because, as the ghostwriter/editor explains to his girlfriend, "Nobody reads."
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