Back to AtD. "you will believe". p878

[Mark Kohut]

And when, a bit later, Yashmeen says "We are the future" how
far into the future did you think she--TRP?--meant...
 
20s and Bloomsbury and wild 20s Jazz age permissiveness, etc..
 
Or, to the present, lossely speaking?
 

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 From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. "you will believe". p878
  
On 5/16/2012 1:35 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> p. 878 just past halfway down
> "Before this is done with,"she [yashmeen] informed him, "if it ever is,
> you will no longer imagine,
> you will believe."....
> 
> What's it all about, Alfie? As TRP is always saying Ian & Sylvia are
> always saying, "love, love is strange" ??
> 
> lots of riffing room here.....riff, riff....

OK, I'll give it a tumble.

I sort of see the two of them enacting a 1940s movie love story, with all the melodramatic (if Yashmeen's using the right word) elements, a circumstance both of them are aware of, the kicker being the very un-1940s sex talk and the fact that, as they both also know, Cyprian imagines Yashmeen as a man.

It's quite perfect.

P
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