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Molly Notkin spills her guts

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Molly Notkin tells them that Madame Psychosis’s own mother had killed herself in a truly ghastly way with an ordinary kitchen garbage disposal on the evening of Thanksgiving Day in the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad, four-odd months before the film’s Auteur himself had killed himself, also with a kitchen appliance, also ghastlyly, which she says though any Lincoln-Kennedy-type connections between the two suicides will have to be ferreted out by the interviewers on their own, since as far as Molly Notkin knew the two different parents didn’t even know of each other’s existence.

Context

The deposition item that pairs the theme's two family catastrophes outright: Joelle's mother into the garbage disposal on Thanksgiving Y.T.M.P., JOI into the microwave four months later — two kitchen-appliance suicides bracketing Joelle's deformation and slide, the "Lincoln-Kennedy-type connections" left airily as an exercise. ("Ghastlyly" as written.)

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