V-2nd - Chapter 8 Space/Time scene climax

Monte Davis montedavis at verizon.net
Sun Oct 3 13:18:07 CDT 2010


Robin Landseadel sez:

> Just to throw a useless curve ball, note that Debussy's unavoidable  
"Clair de Lune" is the the third movement of Debussy's "Suite  
Bergamasque."
	Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair
	You certainly know the right thing to wear
	Moonlight becomes you, I'm thrilled at the sight
	And I could get so romantic tonight

	You're all dressed up to go dreaming
	Now don't tell me I'm wrong..

Which lands us smack back on pp. 542-3, the mirroring middle of AtD: "In the
moonlight, against gravity, the thing poised there..."

And with the transformation of Katje's face one night with Tyrone at the
Casino HG... and certain lunar/venereal apparitions on a windy island in
M&D...

Prolly just coincidence. 

-Monte




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