NPPF: Commentary 5 (notes) Lines 433-434

[Jasper Fidget]

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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
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> 
> I agree. In the dream Phrynia is "prickly-chinned" and Timandra has a
> "boom
> under her apron", somewhat pointedly (sorry) confirming their
> transvestism.
> It's as though they're male actors playing female roles, as per the
> conventions of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre.

D'oh!  I actually didn't even realize it, but you're right.  Of course in
Zembla Charles' mistresses would be men pretending to be women. 

> ps. Apologies to Jasper for requoting the Housman poem. I hadn't yet
> looked
> at his supplementary notes to bekah's excellent summaries and comments.

I don't mind.

Jasper