V-2nd: "No", she said" ........"Meaning yes"
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 17 11:55:41 CDT 2010
Profane wasn't 'getting any' from Paola. Typical male way of putting it--and
his Crew mates pestered for 'seconds' .....more adolescent sex talk.....
Then, with it 'all Xmasy' and Pat Boone playing,
"Somehow the young couple wandered into a darkened
room with this bed in it.".....
"No, she said"
"Meaning yes".
A very interesting moral crux here, yes?...1) we know that later
in US history--maybe the world---the concept of No meaning NO..
of full permission between two consenting adults became a very
public discussion.....even a college mandate----actually put on paper
by a college---Antioch? you can look it up............................
2) In Roth's "When She Was Good",--written later than V.--- he too did
a longer scene of two young 50s folk making out (in a car, I believe), wherein Roth seems
purposely less clear about full consent........Reader, he married her, but it did not work out.
3) This dialogue comes up again in V......
4) And, we are to believe the FULL TRUTH of "Meaning yes".....is intended by V.'s effaced narrator?
That is, that Paola did mean yes?
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