Scorpia?

[rich]

better Scorpia than Scarpia!

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  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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