atdtda: 31 - pg 881

Thu May 1 08:14:37 CDT 2008

I've gotta figure out TRPs overarching perspective on all this.

  It is consensus opinion, I would argue, that what comes out at Carnevale is what has been repressed....all of that uninhibited id......

  TRP more than hints at that with his riffs on Masks..."that deeper intimacy with the unexpressed dreams of Masks"....and other words.

  And then there is the "counter-Carnevale".......Any metphoric connection to GR's Counter-Force?......???

  What is going on here psychologically? or social-psychologically?  (We do know TRP has some deep ideas about psychological attitudes and History, within History, doesn't he?  Always did, still does, I'm sure...)

    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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