Gately janitors at the Shattuck
Stavros Lobokulas’s great ambition—which he goes on about regularly to Gately when they’re cleaning the same barracks—Stavros’s dream is to utilize his unique combination of entrepreneurial drives and janitorial savvy and flairs for creative billing and finding desperate recovering halfway-house guys who’ll scrub shit for next to nothing, to pile up enough $ to open a women’s shoe store in some mobilely upward part of Boston where the women are healthy and upscale and have good feet and can afford to take care of their feet. […] Because what is there to really say about ambitious career-dreams involving feet?
Context
What scene 090 actually contributes to the theme is the reason the catalog's feet-misfile happened: Carlisle's 090 commentary cross-reads Stavros's fetish for healthy upscale female feet against Steeply's trollesque pair seventeen pages earlier (088) — the book's most lovingly imagined feet and its most grotesque, back to back, per him a deliberate pairing. Recorded as his reading.