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

[Mark Kohut]

why not? I've been too lazy ( and using my own lenses) to internalize all your lens remarks but they seem to be liked by most. 

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> On Jan 17, 2015, at 12:35 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Yes, I agree.  I'm sorry if I'm being stubborn here, but isn't this another example of the men as lenses in a twin telescope?  Through Mason's lens, an old crone, etc.; through Dixon's, an attractive young woman.    We get the sort-of stereoscopic view, 3D, if not round.
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>> On Jan 17, 2015, at 4:48 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> Dixon is VERY CLEARLY again contrasted with Mason, I say
>> also obviously......
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>> p.26---"he can't keep from flirting"
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>> "beneath her layers of careful Decrepitude .....[there was] a
>> shockingly young Woman hard at work"
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>> Don't you love "layers of Decrepitude"?.....takes a sensualist
>> Puritan to see/say it that way, eh?....
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>> 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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