Bekah asks

[Mark Kohut]

883.19 - "wondering how close to 'love' any of this might be venturing."   
  

  *  Is  "varieties of loving experience"  a theme?  Who all is close to "love" here? -   Yashmeen loves Cyprian according to Reef and Yashmeen loves Reef according to Cyprian.   Both Cyprian and Reef love Yashmeen  -  as well as each other,   according to the narrator.   
  

    Reef's voice continues to be that of a US Westerner and Cyprian's of a European gad-fly (I guess he temporarily  regresses from his desire to be humiliated ).   After the actual (kind of trite, imo) lace-undies-ripper part, the dialogue is pretty  interesting,  imo. 
   
  I think "varieties" is some kind of theme, yes...
  and, I agree, with trite/ridic ob.......


       
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