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Bennie Salazar
Lou Kline is a powerful and charismatic music producer who lives a decadent lifestyle that includes eating at fancy restaurants, doing cocaine, and seducing young women. Early in the novel, he has a relationship with a seventeen-year-old girl named Jocelyn. He has six children with a number of different wives. One of those children, named Rolph, commits suicide after a long period of estrangement from Lou. Lou refuses to confront the fact that he is aging, and lives his fast lifestyle accordingly. Eventually, however, Lou suffers a stroke as the result of his unhealthy lifestyle, and is left physically impaired and alone.
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Chapter 4
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"Women are cunts," his father says. "That's why.”
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"They are not—" He can't make himself repeat the word.
"They are," Lou says tightly. "Pretty soon you'll know it for sure."
Rolph turns away from his father. There is nowhere to go, so he jumps into the sea and begins slowly paddling back toward shore. The sun is low, the water choppy and full of shadows. Rolph imagines sharks just under his feet, but he doesn't turn or look back.
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Chapter 5
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Every night, my mother ticks off another day I've been clean. It's more than a year, my longest yet. "Jocelyn, You've got so much life in front of you," she says. And when I believe her, for a minute, there's a lifting over my eyes. Like walking out of a dark room.
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Lou Kline Quotes in A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Chapter 4
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"Women are cunts," his father says. "That's why.”
…
"They are not—" He can't make himself repeat the word.
"They are," Lou says tightly. "Pretty soon you'll know it for sure."
Rolph turns away from his father. There is nowhere to go, so he jumps into the sea and begins slowly paddling back toward shore. The sun is low, the water choppy and full of shadows. Rolph imagines sharks just under his feet, but he doesn't turn or look back.
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Chapter 5
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Every night, my mother ticks off another day I've been clean. It's more than a year, my longest yet. "Jocelyn, You've got so much life in front of you," she says. And when I believe her, for a minute, there's a lifting over my eyes. Like walking out of a dark room.
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