Scorpia?

[Joseph Tracy]

The end of the chapter falls flat for me, from Scorpia Mossmoon the speedy stalk to the departure at Waterloo Station with Midgets. She never comes alive either in description or action. She is an Aubrey Beardsley drawing who seems mostly to exist as someone for Pirate to remember fondly and sadly as what might have been. She gives him a kind of inner movie role that is his imaginary emotional identity. He also compares himself to a movie pilot. She takes us farther around the zodiac, provides a little more emptiness to PP as he disappears into a grin and empty ambitions. His tenderness toward Jessica and RM seems more real than his own emotional life.


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