Silly observations

[Tim Ware]

Hmmm.  I appreciate the "poetry" of Benny following the folds of his 
erection, but he's still operating in the novel's "real time."  

>And he and Rachel do have sex.

Do they?  This is reminiscent of the "deaths in GR" controversy.  It 
isn't really clear whether or not they have sex (p. 359).  "McClintic ame 
in and found them like that, holding together until now and again one or 
the other lost balance and made tiny staggers to compensate.  Underground 
garage for a dancing-floor.  So they dance all over the cities."  They 
*probably* do, but...

There's a whole lot of interrupted coitus in V. and I don't believe there 
is a single scene where anyone is actually doing the dirty deed, as They say.
As you say, "action is always being averted."

Also, though I appreciate the harmonic motion angle, the successive 
generations of characters and the two first meetings seem to me 
qualitatively different.  

The second meeting shows that Benny is a lot more excited about potential 
sex than kinetic sex, if I may abuse your analysis.

TW  

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