Transliterated Pudenda
" A young woman stands ten feet away from him ,watching with unsure eyes. The hyoid bone in her throat flutters as if discharging some subvocal rosary. She points to her car, parked off the verge beside a garder, and then beckons to him....All he can say is, 'Jackie Kennedy' "
"...They plunged towards the underpass, the huge fans of the Sikorsky sliding through the air like the wings of falling archangels..."
"The flesh impact: Karen Novotny's beckoning figure in the shower stall, open thighs and exposed pubis-traffic fatalities screamed in this soft collision. The overpass below the apartment: the angles between the concrete buttresses contained for Talbot an immense anguish. A crushed fender: in its broken geometry Talbot saw the dismembered body of Karen Novotny.."
"In Death, Yes. Nathan nodded sagely over his cigarette smoke. 'In death, yes'. That is an alternate or 'false' death. These images of angles and postures constitute not so much a private gallery as a conceptual equation, a fusing device by which Talbot hopes to bring his scenario to a climax. The danger of an assassination attempt seems evident, one hypotenuse in this geometry..."
