ATDTDA (18): If they had been sailing into the future, 505

[Paul Nightingale]

A brief coda that exposes the false departure of the preceding passage,
Katie anticipating "the complications of the harbour". Whereas Cyprian's
thoughts were of Yashmeen, a refusal to give her up, an attempt to maintain
some kind of ownership of her image, Katie here starts thinking of her
parents' departure from Ireland "like everybody else": he constructs an
individual subject, which has now given way to her collective subject, the
stuff of history, perhaps, succeeding the (novellish) bourgeois protagonist.
Again, he seeks to control Yashmeen's forward momentum; her thoughts are
retrospective, conjuring up ghosts, perhaps.