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conversations.value: a plot for a book about Art, Rachael, Jim entitled The Broken Bubble
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conversations.value: The Broken Bubble: The lives of two couples intertwine in mid-1950s California, and all learn important lessons about life.\nJim Briskin is a classical music DJ.\nHe and his ex-wife Patricia Gray are still very much in love but have divorced because he is sterile.\nThe two divorcees meet a teenaged married couple named Art and Rachael and essentially swap partners.\nPat passionately loves the youthful but dysfunctional Art, almost as though he were her child, and the two of them have an abusive relationship in which he gives her a black eye.\nMeanwhile, Jim and Rachael hook up and Rachael offers to ditch Art and move to Mexico with Jim where he will adopt her baby and raise it as his own.\nIn the end, however, maturity prevails and they all return to their original partners.\nMiss Thisbe Holt of the original title is actually a very minor character in the book.\nShe is a well-endowed stripper who performs at an optometrists convention which occurs near the very end of the novel.\nHer act consists of climbing naked into a large clear plastic ball which the optometrists then roll around the hotel suite to more thoroughly examine her ample personal assets.\nThe ball is demolished when it's later filled with debris and pushed off the hotel roof by the inebriated optometrists.\nThe shortened title seems more obviously appropriate in that its lack of specificity allows it to do double duty in serving as a metaphor symbolizing the irreversible effects of the various life-altering events that occur within the orbits of the main characters.