ABSTRACT
Try, if you can, to follow this hugely simplified trail of narrative bread crumbs. In “The Death of Socrates”, Birdie Ludd is torn up over Milly Holt, resident of 334. Loitering in the project, he runs into Nora Hanson. Jilted by Milly, he takes up with Frances Schaap, a hooker living downstairs from him. In “Bodies”, hospital attendant Arnold Chapel carts around the body of now terminally ill Frances. His work pal is Ab Holt, father of Milly. Ab runs a scam with Juan Martinez, husband of Lottie Hanson (daughter to Nora).
