Mexico/Swanlake Cute Meet

[Jonathan Post]

>>Their Hollywood cute meet is made impossible/intruded on by the rocket:

"At which moment the rocket falls. Cute, cute."

>>But then what does it become?

"He didn't even believe she'd get into the car, rocket or not rocket,
accordingly now puts Pointsman's Jaguar somehow into reverse instead of
low, yes, backs over the bicycle, rendering it in a great crunch useless
for anything but scrap.
“I'm in your power,” she cries. “Utterly."

>>the "accordingly" seems at odds with the "somehow". Has the cute meet
gone sinister, Mexico purposely removing any possibility of Swanlake's
escape? Is her reaction a real genuflection? Does the rocket bring with it,
if temporarily (because of course, we are told a few lines latter that
Swanlake is not in his power), a Sadean landscape?

>>or do we emphasize the "somehow into reverse" and see the crunch as an
accident and Swanlake's response as tongue-in-cheek

Thoughts?
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