Joelle Van Dyne

PGOAT: Prettiest Girl of All Time

a.k.a., Madame Psychosis (her radio stage name)

a.k.a., Lucille Duquette (according to Molly Notkin, her real name)

(introduced pp. 219, though arguably possibly in an earlier footnote)

addict (smokes freebase cocaine)
“own personal daddy” (father) is a low pH chemist
- after she entered puberty he became ‘creepily’ obsessed with her (allegedly ‘in love’ with her) and attempted to combat those feelings by regressing, and treating her like an infant
her mother
- highly religious
- had been sexually abused by her own father
  - doubling her disgust when Joelle’s father makes his own admission to being ‘in love’ with Joelle (despite also insisting that he’d never touched her)
  - threw acid at Joelle’s father, only to have it miss him, and then miss Orin, and hit-and-disfigure Joelle
  - committed suicide that day (Thanksgiving, YTMP) by sticking her arms down the garbage disposal
veiled (UHID member)
worked w/ Himself
- his favorite actress?
- she unveiled for him (but didn’t sleep with him)
roommate is (was) Molly Notkin
previous lover to Orin
- for 26 months
Orin knew re Joelle and Himself, though Avril arguably did not
cheerleader at B.U. (when she met Orin)
while at B.U. becomes obsessed with film
- Orin introduces her to Himself’s Pre-Nuptial Agreement Between Heaven and Hell
dreamed that Gately was her dentist (pp. 724)

WHAT DID JOELLE SEE?? (pp. 958)