Uncle Dai Kew “hellhole kitchens” p75
“buckets of sawdust” hog fuel p76, verisimilitude for Vancouver
“No work, no will”
“God of Longevity” Old Longlife? p77
“scare off any Depression hobo”
“Turtle talk to ghosts- all the time, ghost talk!” p79
“Good fortune, Grandmother had said, long life.” p80
“I have a pet like the old man and the boy in the woods.”
“had seen a movie” (78)
turtle has symbolic meaning in Chinese turtle
part of Chinese mythology
tension with meaning
“This is a Canada turtle” p84
“This low fan boy… said it was a low fan turtle.” p84
“low fan” gwei lo -
“King George”
“omen” p84 – sign of good luck or bad luck
scary movie “The Omen”
last sentence- good ghosts, good luck
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