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AFFECT, like another recent pieces, is composed of our familiar notions of warmth and coldness in personalities; or ardor and distance in connection with body temperatura; and of dry moments of life and moist ones. Il plays with American verbal expressions that refer to these traits, such as "freezing a person out" (excluding them from a particular group), telling someone to "dry up" ( meaning she or he is "all wet"or wrong), saying someone is dry as "dust"(dull) or is "in hot water" (trouble). [pag.12]
TAKE-OFF is at once a parody and a series of collusions masked as deceptions (or put-ons). The central issue is trust in the truthfulness and loyalty of a confederate. The confederate is trusted to carry a desired impression to another person. But she or he is also the confederate of that other person and may not be loyal. The possibility of secrecy and intimacy exist on all sides. And betrayal. [pag.32]
