Femmes Fatales in AtD, somewhat corrected

[Mark Kohut]

Well, I was just seeing if you were all paying attention, as the stupid teachers (or hosts) used to say.
   
  Some of the earlier women are love figures, fer sure, but I guess I was thinking more lovers
  for some of them to qualify. But, it is true----------how about we
   
  say Sirens?
   
  

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  Mark Kohut wrote:
> Belatedly, I've looked up Femmes Fatale and it seems to carry overtones
> of danger, fatality, ensnarement in a plot/trap.
>
> I guess I alwys thought that was just one branch.
>

fatal, yes - but attractive
(remember the guy in the Neal Stephenson book who
was flattered to be called an attractive nuisance?)

> So, how about goddesses of love in AtD?......"always him to her, that was
> the pattern, best
> to keep that in mind"-----Reef...863
> Yashmeen
> Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin
> Jacintha Drulove (it seems)
>
> nowhere else in his oeuvre, right?

well, Frenesi...Prairie, to some extent...
that Wiccan chick in Germany that Robin's always on about...
Paola in V. - spirituo/sexual center of the book I still maintain
the belated wife in M&D (bit of a stretch, but not terribly so)
DL for those of us who appreciate the floozie with an Uzi

and for Mexico, definitely Jessica!

I will agree, not so many love interests in the short stories, though


       
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