VLVL Takeshi

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
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> I'd say that "leered genially" is an oxymoron, and that the full context of
> the meeting between Prairie and Takeshi needs to be taken into account. I
> don't agree that DL's comment is advice to Prairie to watch out for
> Takeshi's sex dance, and I don't agree that her statement is related to the
> narrator's jokey reference to the way Takeshi "glided" across the airport
> lobby. (Of course, that assertion was merely a furphy, a bait.)

I agree. The problem is, we don't have much context. I understand your
reading of it. 
I think you are correct when you argue that DL is trying to build
Takeshi up for Prairie. He's sort of the Wizard of Oz after the Toto has
pulled the curtain back.  
But I don't think the text  permits anything conclusive. I think that
the genial leering is consistent with Takeshi's genial leering with
females generally. I can go along with the martial arts feet or the
dancing feet. I think that the sexual jocularity is important. In the
narrative, Takeshi is about to insert his card into the slot in the
door, heedlessly. 


I don't know who made that assertion about the airport scene, but the
gliding, as I read it, is due to the  state of his body & mind.