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JAKE - Paranoid
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Jake has been friends with Mike and Luce for almost three
years. Jake had been seeing a work colleague of Luce's. Afterwards,
he stayed in touch with Luce and became increasingly friendly
with Mike. They shared a passion for the Net, in those days
still a cultish thing. It was like belonging to a secret club.
Jake's recruitment helped transform Mike's embryonic site
(original content, dreary appearance) into a thing of beauty.
He genuinely believes in the site, enjoying the platform it
provides for his creativity.
Jake is the only son of a nitwit mother and an older, Jewish
father, Murray. His mother ran off to Scotland with a rich
businessman. Alone together, he and his father argued constantly,
which is how Jake developed his ever-ready putdowns.
The father / son relationship is uneasy and dysfunctional.
The bottom line being that the bond is too great to be broken.
Jake finds Murray hard work - he's never forgiven his mother
for leaving, but knowing his Dad he can see why she did.
This self-sufficiency and independence at an early age means
that Jake already nurses deeply rooted habits and preferences
- an armoury on which his harmony with the world depends.
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