Back to AtD. "you will believe". p878

[Paul Mackin]

On 5/17/2012 10:32 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 5/17/2012 2:51 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>> 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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I think Yashmeen is foreseeing the vast changes coming in the postwar 
world. Her cavorting with Cyprian, the role reversals, she sees in these 
prophetic terms, all the while realizing that her work on Cyp is only 
scratching the surface in things to come.  (couple of puns got worked in 
there somewhere)

P
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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.
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