SLSL "TSR" Swamp Wench

[Scott Badger]

Doug:
> I think Levine is doing something besides going
> through the motions -- with his hat on, puffing the
> cigar, making her undress first then wait for him on
> the bed, he's treating her like a whore,  the way the
> men treat the Swamp Wench he's been reading about in
> that lurid, soft-core porno paperback.

Whether or not he treats her like a whore, I agree with the earlier comment
that Levine seems "detached".

> >isn't
> >there
> >at least a bit of depravity in her "whimpering" from
> >the mattress?
>
> Or, maybe she's just acting in a way that the men in
> her life have taught her to act. Or, maybe she's one
> of those women who knows how to get started without
> waiting for the man. Or... many ways to read this
> without calling her depraved.

Play-acting or already playing? Still sounds more desperate to me.


> >Or
> >maybe
> >she's just thumbing a ride up out of the swamp....too
> >bad for her that
> >Levine, the plowboy college-boy, is going native.
>
> That one's sad, too, if the gold-digger's way up in an
> enlisted man in the US Army posted to the Louisiana
> swamps.

I think it's the college-boy she's hitching for.

Admittedly, I was casting about some, and "depravity" may or may not be too
strong a term here (better a slut??....), but I still don't see that  either
Levine or Buttercup, individually or mutually, get any satisfaction from the
experience.

What I find most interesting is the line, "a never totally violated
Pasiphae". Why "never totally"? Is Levine a beast? Is "Buttercup" a
disguise? What minotaurs would be their issue? and so forth.

Scott Badger