Back to AtD. [Dally] "What. having her neck bitten."...[notice no Q mark. true in pb?] p.917

[Mark Kohut]

page 917...............Some surely controversial, I self-declare, therefroe ruining it and damping
the blowback (maybe), speculations on this scene. 

A little dracula joke given the locale, why'd TRP make it?...more fun with historical stereotypes
and popualr culture, yes, but.............................

Kit observes She seems to like it....another little sado-masochistic joke/insight of TRPs about
the power relationship between people---lovers?---as a plister has expressed as a major theme? 
yes, to that too and the plister is surely right which leads then to the sexual encounter between
Kit and Dally....which starts w a blow job as foreplay THEN leads

To Dally happily riding him to a happy ending for her too, it seems...."paprika slashback...all naked and wet in his arms."

Is TRP giving us here an example of a power-sharing act (and relationship)? In the present time of the novel, of history, yet perhaps
not as common then as it was to become...more empowered women later in history after all---(that is
without some nod to relationships of the future as the yashmeen traingle seemed to?)

A virtual ideal? Equality between the sexes?
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