That "Meaning yes" was voiced makes it more of a comment or question to which Paola can reply "No means no" than an assertion.<br clear="all"><br>AsB4,<br><br>Henry Mu<br><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20">http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20</a> <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Profane wasn't 'getting any' from Paola. Typical male way of putting it--and<br>
his Crew mates pestered for 'seconds' .....more adolescent sex talk.....<br>
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Then, with it 'all Xmasy' and Pat Boone playing,<br>
"Somehow the young couple wandered into a darkened<br>
room with this bed in it.".....<br>
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"No, she said"<br>
"Meaning yes".<br>
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A very interesting moral crux here, yes?...1) we know that later<br>
in US history--maybe the world---the concept of No meaning NO..<br>
of full permission between two consenting adults became a very<br>
public discussion.....even a college mandate----actually put on paper<br>
by a college---Antioch? you can look it up............................<br>
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2) In Roth's "When She Was Good",--written later than V.--- he too did<br>
a longer scene of two young 50s folk making out (in a car, I believe), wherein Roth seems<br>
purposely less clear about full consent........Reader, he married her, but it did not work out.<br>
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3) This dialogue comes up again in V......<br>
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4) And, we are to believe the FULL TRUTH of "Meaning yes".....is intended by V.'s effaced narrator?<br>
That is, that Paola did mean yes?<br>
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