IVing IV 'indict a bean burrito', p. 277

[alice wellintown]

The same gesture--looking at another---can indicate deference and
submission. P certainly knew this long before feminists published
studies on the gaze(s). That females look away or lower or avert their
gaze when a male looks at them, as submissive animals do, is science.
But, human context is complex. Moreover, if we add speaking and
listening to the mix, to the context (where, when, the power
relationships--education, employment, age, level of expertise) and to
gazing,  we complicate things considerably.

P is writing with these things, stage direction descriptions. Is it working?



On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh Mark, perish forbid (as my grandmother used to say:
>>
>>  Might P be hinting that, like Frenesi, women (many women) in the new America of relationships that is beginning here, WANT submission?
>>
>>
>
> I'll buy that maybe he's hinting that men like Zoyd, whose best shot at
> non-domineering relationships somehow misses the hoop
> (maybe distracted by all those shoes squeaking on the floor)
> and who see the person to whom they directed the not-Mesmeric-enough passes
> apparently looking in other guys for that quality they deliberately excluded,
> will occasionally wonder if that isn't the key...but they can't
> bring themselves to regress that much...
>
>
> --
> - "The doctor said give him jug band music; it seems to make him feel
> just fine!"
>