atdtda: 31 - pg 881

[Bekah]

Moving right along to the Carnesalve:

881.1  Cyprian is wearing a "black taffeta ball toilette" -   a ball  
gown,  black taffeta  - the rest of his outfit is obviously for a  
very sexy masked woman - not unlike Yashmeen.

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881. 4  Cyrian's face is  "framed by Signor Fabrizio's re-imagining  
of Yashmeen's hair... "      re-imagining because she's had it cut -  
because Cyprian is wearing it?

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881. 5  with  "seed pearls"   tiny round pearls - often imperfect
in a Regency hairstyle see:   http://www.songsmyth.com/ 
hairstyles.html   (scroll down to the 7th graphic)

and "Parma violets" - Parma violets are widely believed to be  
sterile, and there is much store laid by their reproduction through  
cuttings.  [ ,]  French violet grower proved this belief to be a  
myth, however, and with the right conditions any sturdy and content  
violet could well produce a seed pod.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Parma_violet

http://www.americanvioletsociety.org/Species_N_Cultivars/Parma.htm    
( photos of two kinds)

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881.7  "loggie"    plural of loggia - a roofed open corridor  
overlooking an open court
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loggie

Loggia is the name given to an architectural feature, originally of  
Italian design, which is often a gallery or corridor generally on the  
ground level, or sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and  
open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or  
pierced openings in the wall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggia

also - a graphic:  http://www.merriam-webster.com/art/dict/loggia.htm

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881.10  Reef is wearing a  "Pierrot costume"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot

** But Reef's trousers must have been somewhat more confining than  
those shown (his erection "threatened to dismantle" the trousers)  in  
that graphic,  so might I suggest:

http://auguste.vestris.free.fr/Essays/Commedia.html   where the pants  
are a bit smaller.   (That whole site is pretty interesting.)

** Otoh,  Reef may have humungous erections.    Interesting that Reef  
is Pierrot because that's a mime, a  speechless character,  in  
fantasy.  And a Pierrot costume is almost always white.   And this  
costume for Reef was of Yashmeen's choosing.

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881.13-21  - Cyprian is about to make an assault on Reef then and  
there but Yashmeen prevents it.   Reef doesn't do much to prevent  
it.  His erection is bigger than ever, nipples sore,  etc.

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881. 23  "Yashmeen, in satin domino":     "satin domino"  is usually  
an eye mask and not necessarily black.  One reference, NEW YORK FANCY  
COSTUMES FOR 1869 gives an  alternative description (but no picture):  
<http://www.victoriana.com/FancyDress/fancydresscostume.htm>

"The handsomest dominoes are of satin or corded silk, pink, blue,  
white, or black, trimmed with swan's-down or with lace. A satin  
domino should be made of a good quality, or it soon becomes flimsy.  
It should be sufficiently long to conceal the whole dress beneath. An  
ingenious modiste makes a domino that can afterward be used as a  
dress-skirt. It is merely the skirt of a gored, trained dress,  
pleated into a broad yoke that covers the shoulders. Openings for the  
arms are left in the side seams. The usual round cape and hood is  
worn over this. We have seen this prettily made in blue satin trimmed  
with a quilling of the same. A scarlet gros grain domino, trimmed  
with ermine, has a large cape and a deeply-pointed hood in the Arab  
fashion. A pretty domino that looks like a dress is made of pink  
satin, with a short loose sacque and open sleeves worn over the  
garment proper. The hood sacque and edge of the domino are festooned  
with white lace headed by a ruche of satin. Costumers make a rich  
satin domino trimmed with swan's-down for $60. The expense of hiring  
for one evening is from $15 to $20.
"Gentlemen wear dominoes this winter more than fancy dress. These are  
made of black silk, untrimmed, and worn with a black mask. They cost  
about $50. Coarser dominoes of woolen stuffs, usually of Italian  
cloth, are inexpensive, costing only $2."

Of course "domino" goes with "dominitrix" quite nicely

And fwiw,  Reef in costume is white male,  Cyprian is black female  
and Yashmeen is also in black but could be either male or female.

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881. 23 ""Cyprian could scarcely breathe... mostly from Reef's  
presence,  the dark energy just behind him."

Reef,  dressed in white, is still a "dark energy."

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881.31   Yashmeen is directing the three of them toward a more  
private place.  "They had never been all together quite like this  
till now, the proceedings had been limited to the two heterosexual  
legs of the triangle."

And now the triangle will be complete.  This is a full triangle  
unlike the  Lake/Deuce/Sloat triangle which was always incomplete.

Pythagorian triangles,  sexual triangles,  political triangles,   
Trinity,  etc.   Triangles have multiple meanings, very symbolic but  
in this case,  of what?  Anything?

http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/28/281.html

or   http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_symbolism_of_a_triangle

The father, the mother and the son
The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
The male, the female and the creative power
The sky, the earth and the living creatures
The union of two that creates the third
The perfect union when two become one
The prayer elevated from all Earth to the one God
The power of the One to become All
Each moment of Life where you can take two decisions or ways

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881.32-36 -  Cyprian ponders the outcome of this move and wonders if  
he will "be able to bear the humiliation."  "He did not dare to  
hope."  (He's trying not to look forward too much to the pain.)

* Cyprian,  in a really perverse way,  is trying to extinguish  
himself.  He longs for humiliation and pain in order to transcend it  
spiritually.  Ever since he came back to Venice looking for Theign/ 
Jasmine he has been undergoing this transformation.   Maybe prior to  
that.

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881.37  Yashmeen leads  Reef and Cyprian to an "upper room."

An "upper room" is mentioned several times in the Bible but the  
traditional use of the term refers to the room of the Last Supper,    
Mark 14.15.

(KJV)  "And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and  
prepared: there make ready for us."
  - The Last Supper, according to the Gospel of John occurred the  
night prior to Jesus' death - Thursday night.   In AtD  story time  
this is all happening on Holy Saturday/Easter Sunday,  1908 or 09 (or  
so)  except it seems the trio has traveled beyond time.)

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Bekah














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