V. Reading

[Teen Age Riot]

Andrew goes:
>  And as the action
> develops doesn't Benny linger longer around Rachel and then Josefina
> as he reaches pericheir (to remint a prior coinage) the repulsive
> forces clearly decreasing whereas Stencil begins to circle and even
> move away as, thanks to his paranoia, attraction turns to repulsion.

Yah, this is what I was really trying to say, although I see Benny more as 
being drawn in towards Rachel, while running into Josefina was after he 
had chosen to go to Malta and broken the cycle.  Benny starts 
overseas, arrives on the East Coast, and then proceeds to ricochet 
back and forth, eventually  zeroing back in on Rachel, with whom 
he begins a tentative courtship, a close-range yo-yoing at high 
frequency, without ever landing on...the spot.
 
> > What is it about this settling point that's so terrible?
> 
> Fear of castration?
Yeah, that would about do it for me. :)  Although I think Don pretty much 
nailed what I was trying to get at, and then some.

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