Back to AtD. "you will believe". p878

[alice wellintown]

And, what kind of feminism is Tom toaking here? It's rather
mainstream. I guess. So the trick is in the movies again. Yeah, he's a
regular Shakespeare, you know, like the way he does the....what is it
that Eliot took from Dickens? Or was that something Tom took after he
got ridd of his bad one. Not an ear but a voice? Never did pay much
attention to that elements of style, but that part that commands that
we Be Clear. The tongue in the stone is no smoother than the sole.


>>> 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?
>>
> 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)