The last pre-Subsidized Thanksgiving; Joelle "survives Avril"

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texture · B.S. 2001, Nov

When: B.S. 2001, "that last pre-Subsidized Thanksgiving," Headmaster's House, E.T.A.
What: Orin brought Joelle to the non-turkey midnight Thanksgiving dinner at HmH, where — as Joelle recounts (scene 150) — Avril "graciously" ran the table (every guest inclining toward her "like heliotropes"), JOI erupted once into a Studio-system monologue then rose to freshen his drink and never returned, and ~ten-year-old Hal performed definitions. In the cab home Orin "hung his leg over Joelle's crossed legs" and asked twice how she'd liked the Moms.