Mexico/Swanlake Cute Meet

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And we know how that ended

On Thursday, December 18, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> and they can be, as Bowie, or somebody said, Heroes, cuz there is
> something about Julia and Winston in Them, in Life Against Death
> (NOB).
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:24 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Yes, a Sadean landscape or Sadomasochistic Theater/Theatre?
> >
> > Ever seen 007 from russia with love? how they spill the oil, then the
> > spool of film out into the water from the boat as they escape?
> >
> > Of course they are kids, boy meets girl, horny, a bit pumped up on
> > youth and hormones and rivalry and jealousy and innocence and the war
> > and the rocket mixes all that up in a martini glass, shaken not
> > stirred.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>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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