VLVL (13) - Cesare Lombroso

[Michael Bailey]

 Bekah  wrote:
> Yeah-  symbolic is the wrong word -  just say 'puts me in mind of.'
>

maybe possibly synecdochal?  emblematic?

badly need a comma in this sentence here (imho)
(274) ...the hard blued body, the unforgiving shore against which, on
breaking waves whose power she felt but would never understand[,] she
had ridden, would ride, again and again....

(or else leave out the comma after which and go for the long sweep)

anyway Brock is (like the shore - the waves are hers, I think, so we
have in B/F a wave-particle duality) a force of nature
the blued body (in the tornado light) - like the ancient Britons dyed
in woad, or like Krishna

surrendering to force is natural and pleasurable
the force isn't his, the force isn't, I go on to think, even "hers"
but something she rides, and the trope isn't just about their sex that
day but their whole interplay and the scene they're in and life, the
universe and everything, Freud's oceanic feeling...


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