atdtda: 31 - pg 876

[Bekah]

Last page for the day.   I think I'm caught up and I have a few pages  
stashed.   At two pages a day (plus one) I should finish next Sunday  
May 3.

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876.5  Yashmeen:  " 'You went out there,' she said, 'when you didn't  
have to.  How was I supposed to feel?'"

She's pissed at Cyprian and is going to get her revenge  - or - at  
least that's how it starts - and Cyprian,  being Cyprian, fully  
accepts his position.
* revenge again - a new kind

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876.9-15

"And then one of those silences fell, and a curious thing had  
happened to time, for although they were the same people they had  
been when he had stepped on  board the S.S. John of Asia last year,  
at the same time they were two entirely different people who had no  
business being in the same city together let alone the same room, and  
yet whatever it was between them was deeper now, the stakes were  
higher, the danger of how much there was to lose terribly,  
incontrovertibly clear."

Great passage - totally  AtD.   Changes,  impending doom or  
something, foreshadowing.  Have they fallen out of Time?

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876.21-.22 "...  days without shaving or changing his collar and  
dittoes..."

* dittoes - a matching coat, waistcoat and trousers - a suit
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/Di/Dittoes.html
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876.22-.23  "... on the assumption that he was all but invisible  
before the public gaze."
Dirty equals invisible?   This is the state of his self-esteem.  He's  
becoming dirt.

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876.30-31  "Most who met him found it difficult to reconcile his  
appetite for sexual abasement - its specific carnality - with what  
had to be termed a religious surrender of the self."

carnality -  I think in this case it may be defined as  "feeling  
morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/carnality

and there is definite relationship to Buddhism - loss of self

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876.31-.33  "Then Yashmeen entered the picture..."  and knew  
immediately exactly   "...  what she was looking at."


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876.37 - 877.3 -   Yashmeen is getting bored with the political,  
suburban type life and its "diminished payoffs."  She wants to  
"transcend" that.  Cyrpian is like minded to an extent,  but Cyprian  
wants to "transcend" pain.  Yashmeen is willing to help him get there  
- and he can help her desire to inflict it.

*** This seems to contradict the text a page earlier where it is  
apparent that they are so different they should not even be in the  
same town.  But Yashmeen sees the connection where Cyprian does  
not.    Lines .2-.3 above say he's "...not even particularly aware of  
it."

They are so different - he wants pain and humiliation, she wants to  
inflict pain and reap power (as she glimpsed in the Book of the  
Masked - pgs 853/863).

Bekah










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