VL-IV regressive? / bunkmate / by touch / more tulle

[Michael Bailey]

133 --- "By this time she was used to the car and its unorthodox
push-button shifting, having made the analysis "stick shift = penis"
and speculating that a push-button automatic might at least appear
more clitorally ladylike, or, as DL might've put it, regressive, if
there'd been anybody anymore to talk to, which of course there
wasn't."

hope I'm not misreading this, but maybe talking isn't DL's strong
point.  Regressive?  Certainly a non-standard usage, isn't it?
Recessed, maybe, sort of...at least compared to a stickshift.
But it's a sort of unschooled creativity.  I think.
Anyway, the point is re-made, she's not got all that many friends or
lovers to talk to.  Especially since Brock Vond; so although she has a
"rich inner life" and a discipline, those of us who've had times like
those understand how fall that fars short of happiness...

135 her bunkmate Lobelia
sorta changing her orientation around via Lobelia's ambiguous status?

135 - "city traffic circulated in humid fricatives"
well, yeah, the sound of tires on the road (one of my favorite things,
btw), and of air brakes, could just as well be fricatives as
sibilants, couldn't they?  A new way to think about them.

137 "...she turned to have a look at her purchaser.  Shades, black and
white outfit, inches shorter [she must be rather tall] but - she
already knew by touch - faster and better."
but she's really fast and good...right?  But we all have our limitations.

137 - "In a slither of tulle, she ducked and curled, alone, into the back seat."

Tulle excursion (well, because you know, the tulle fog back in Zoyd's
youth was already mentioned, oops, no, that was tule fog, not tulle
fog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule but even so...) into Wikipedia
---

During the Hundred Years' War Tulle was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando.

During the Second World War, the 2nd SS Division Das Reich division of
the Waffen SS perpetrated a reprisal massacre of civilians in Tulle,
following the killing and brutally maiming of some 40 German soldiers
in Tulle on 8 June 1944 by the Maquis resistance movement. On 9 June
1944 a large number of male civilians were rounded up by the SS. Of
these, 97 were randomly selected and then hanged from lampposts and
balconies in the town. Additionally, another 321 captives were sent to
forced labour camps in Germany.

At Tulle and in Bas (Lower) Limousin, every year, on the vigil of St.
John the Baptist, a feast is kept which is known as le tour de la
lunade (the change of the moon); it is a curious example of the manner
in which the Church was able to sanctify and Christianize many pagan
customs.

Tulle Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tulle) is a Roman Catholic
cathedral in the town of Tulle, France. It is the seat of the
Bishopric of Tulle, created in 1317 in the aftermath of the
suppression of the Albigensians.

(dude, another heresy bell ringing)

but the tulle that DL is wearing is fabric of course:
"Tulle is a lightweight, very fine netting, which is often starched.
It can be made of various fibers, including silk, nylon, and rayon.
Tulle is most commonly used for veils, gowns (particularly wedding
gowns), and ballet tutus."


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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."