V-2nd: Pondering Paola

[Mark Kohut]

Whom laura first essayed..(lost the post or would quote)

But, paraphrase, she is defined by her relations to men.......and
with Rachel the other woman of some depth

pappy Hod, 45 to her prolly under 16ness......learns sex is more a mystery 
than he can figure out....did not know the score cause it ain't written down in numbers.
Even here another little P jab at quantification----and what--love/sex/making a woman happy---
cannot be 'written down in numbers"..............................

She leaves the 'security' of Pappy's bed........and wants Profane to 
'be good to her"......"the way Pappy wasn't"..............but she is an
unreliable narrator about Pappy's treatment of her----if Benny is to be believed.

[Benny] "believed about half; half because a woman is only half of something there are
usually two sides to.".....two sides to every story in common parlance BUT

is TRP alluding to one of the first stories of Love......Plato in The Symposium with the story of Zeus 
of real lovers originally one sphere which was torn asunder so the two halves have been searching for
their other half ever since? When found, Love. Pappy waren't it.