Hal & Avril "Politeness Roulette"; the self-hating apple

texture · Aug YDAU recalled

• When: UNDATED recalled — late August YDAU (Orientation period)
• What: In a recalled waiting-room scene with Avril, Hal endures the Moms's self-abnegating routine — "Orin and Hal's term for this routine is Politeness Roulette" — the "Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem," here pressing her own Granny Smith on the hungry, ankle-sore Hal. Hal "despised the way he always reacted, taking the apple, pretending to pretend his reluctance." Orin's darker read: she goes around "with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9 mm. to the feelings' temple." A core rendering of the fraught Hal-Avril bond.