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childish grownup, on whom the girls play a trick, but whom Enid—finding him a kindred spirit—grows fond of.

In this skewed world, all adults are suspect. Enid’s father, known only as Dad, is a doormat to his daughter; Maxine, his former mistress (or is it second wife?), is fulsomely effusive to Enid, who duly despises her, especially after Dad brings her in to live with them. Seymour, who works in a record store and collects esoteric 78-rpm blues and jazz records, as well as other nostalgic bric-a-brac, is a sad sack; his collection, however, is totally to kill for. (Totally is the chief catchword in the girls’ vocabulary, where things tend to be “totally cool” or “totally weird.”)

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childish grownup, on whom the girls play a trick, but whom Enid—finding him a kindred spirit—grows fond of.

In this skewed world, all adults are suspect. Enid’s father, known only as Dad, is a doormat to his daughter; Maxine, his former mistress (or is it second wife?), is fulsomely effusive to Enid, who duly despises her, especially after Dad brings her in to live with them. Seymour, who works in a record store and collects esoteric 78-rpm blues and jazz records, as well as other nostalgic bric-a-brac, is a sad sack; his collection, however, is totally to kill for. (Totally is the chief catchword in the girls’ vocabulary, where things tend to be “totally cool” or “totally weird.”)