Atdtda29: You are all alike, 807-808

[Paul Nightingale]

Yashmeen as a victim of anti-semitism. In 57.1 Cyprian struggles to read
Theign's map, to appreciate the "almost godlike" perspective on offer, and
now: "[f]or a minute she was too bewildered to see it", and "[s]he had had
no reason to pay attention till now". If Cyprian and Bevis are to become
victims of Theign's plotting, Yashmeen is representative of a rather more
generalised victim, the Jewish/non Jewish victim of Viennese politics. In
the previous chapter, visited by Noellyn, Yashmeen has been taken back to
Cambridge, reminded in passing of the ongoing T.W.I.T. threat: the erstwhile
mathematician is now, effectively, in disguise as a shop-assistant
(802-804); here, she suffers a loss of identity that goes beyond her
landlady's accusation, given that "[h]atred of the Jew was sometimes almost
beside the point" etc. The "tremendous dark energy that could be tapped in
to ..." etc (807-808) can take a range of forms, including the compelling
argument Cyprian offers to persuade Yashmeen to go to Trieste (808).