AtDTDA 32: Fantasia on a Fantasia of Thomas Tallis Pt. 3

[Michael Bailey]

 robinlandseadel wrote:
>
>  Charles Hollander notes the connections between Dante and
>  Pynchon, but I think Dante's presence is more like elaboration
>  or decoration

like those amoretti on the ceiling at the Carnesalve?

---
more about Ruperta's change of heart:
right before, she gets Dally involved posing as the Angel of Death
("ever such a treat in store")
upon reflection, maybe not the friendliest gesture, or very flattering at all...
Dally obtusely takes it @ face value though or transcends Ruperta's malice

Right after her ascension, Ruperta with a "Samantha-from-Bewitched" tiny gesture
(a twitch of her cigarette) indicates or pollicates or "kapnocates"
a match made for Dally and Crouchmas which though exposing D
to danger, still enriches her and leads to her reunion with Kit...

also, Looking at the rather amorphous sex scene betw D & C...
"right out on Northumberland Avenue...herself in expensive deshabille
and a warm fog of self-pleasure..."
so, she and C are right out _on the everlovin' street_ ?! and
she's pleasuring herself for him to watch...
(like in Summer of '42 where the boys think all a woman has
to do is cross her legs...maybe this could be done at a table in Claridge's
or someplace...)

Finally - I have Ruperta on the brain today (and Dally has
been sitting across from me at my table @ Claridge's with
her legs crossed...) - Ruperta as a little girl: "had offered him [Crouchmas]
a pound for one of his lead soldiers, and upon his handing it over
she had picked up a nearby cricket bat and begun, rather solemnly,
to pound him with it"
with the bat?  pound Crouchmas or the soldier? mean little
girl anyway (also, that upper-class British solidarity where
they all have stayed @ each other's country houses etc)