Mexico/Swanlake Cute Meet

[Mark Kohut]

The rocket may easily bring a Sadean landscape with it, nice phrase,
but in your particular example

I have read the line as the observation that since he did not believe
she would even get in the car, he, flustered, fumblingly loses
control.....and, does not even know
how he put the car into reverse.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Jonathan Post <jonfpost at gmail.com> 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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