Christmas Party at the White Visitation
Während sich Slothrop bereits an der Riviera "erholt", wird in der White
Visitation Weihnachten gefeiert und Pointsman bekommt von Maude Chilkes einen
unerwarteten Blowjob verpaßt wie Jahrzehnte später Bill Clinton von
Monica Lewinsky:
"A Victorian pose, her cheek against his leg, his high–veined hand against
her face. But no one saw them, then or ever, and in the winter ahead, here and
there, her look will cross his and she’ll begin to blush red as her knees,
she’ll come to his room off the lab once or twice perhaps, but somehow
they’re never to have this again, this sudden tropics in the held breath
of war and English December, this moment of perfect peace. . . . " (169)
Christmas Bugs
"Christmas bugs. They were deep in the straw of the manger in Betheleham, they
stumbled, climbed, fell glistening red among a golden lattice of straw that
must have seemed to extend miles up and downward—an edible
tenement–world, (…) A tranquil world: the temperature and
humidity staying nearly steady, the day’s cycle damped to only a soft easy
sway of light, gold to antique–gold to shadows, and back again. The crying
of the infant reached you, perhaps, as bursts of energy from the invisible
distance, nearly unsensed, often ignored. You savior, you see. . . ."
(173–174)
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