V2nd - Chapter 10 Slab, why won't he sleep with Esther

[Michael Bailey]

is it possible that he was offended by her plastic surgery and her
sexual submission to Schoenmaker?

page 330 (Harper Perennial) "after a memorable party a year ago at
Raoul, his and Melvin's, a night he and Esther broke up"  well the
timing isn't right, it was a whole year ago, so August 1955
- but there must've been some passion between them, back then, to
drive him into yoyoing and then celibacy



other oddments:

Roony jumping on top of the espresso machine.  Probably symbolic, but of what?
"...sat manipulating the taps with his toes"  (p 329)


an itinerant race-driver named Murray Sable (328) while Profane is
speaking on the phone with Rachel.
The girl with him rolled away.
"On her back began half a dream dialogue."    - Huh?  Profane's
dialogue with Rachel, but he's also looking in on the scene and
imagining a dialogue with the girl, like with Shroud?




-- 
"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith