Scorpia?

[Monte Davis]

>  She takes us farther around the zodiac, provides a little more emptiness
to PP as he disappears into a grin and empty ambitions.

Nailed it: beautifully said.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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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