M & D Deep Duck "Elan or Esprit or whatever...."

[Mark Kohut]

Dixon is VERY CLEARLY again contrasted with Mason, I say
also obviously......

p.26---"he can't keep from flirting"

"beneath her layers of careful Decrepitude .....[there was] a
shockingly young Woman hard at work"

Don't you love "layers of Decrepitude"?.....takes a sensualist
Puritan to see/say it that way, eh?....

We.of course, know he KNOWS this, he isn't just undressing her with his eyes.

Two approaches to life? Life Force embodiment and Death Wish embodiment?
So far.
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