![]() ![]() Revisiting Kim’s version of Ardis the First, for Van as for Ada, is part horror, at the thought they were being spied on and are now under the thundercloud of blackmail, and part affront, at the meanly objective view of their subjective enchantments. Van infers that this spring 1888 photograph, before his June 1888 return, records her tryst with another lover, and that apart from that photograph she has excised from the album the entire record of Ardis the Second and therefore the visual evidence of her infidelities there that drove him away forever. Krolik? And Ada has made the mistake of leaving in the album one photograph of 1888, thinking it of the willow islet she and Van frequented in 1884. Now, revisiting Ardis 1884 again, neither in space nor memorial time but via Kim’s stark photographs, Van feels a new assault on remembered glories, and new twinges of doubt: need he feel jealousy toward even Dr. While he and Ada could recapture some of the old joys, while they could wander together through the memory-haunted park, new sorrows and pangs had surfaced. When he revisited Ardis in 1888 he had hoped to relive the magic of the 1884 summer. Van has forever abjured Ardis, but Ardis now comes to him in the form of the album’s visual review of his first summer there. She had thought that that payment ended the blackmail threat Van points out that Kim will have retained the negatives, and the threat remains. ![]() 7 immediately shows Van the photograph album of Ardis the First that she paid $1000 to take from Kim Beauharnais. With the erotic pressure released, Ada in Pt. 6, in the first hour of their 1892 Manhattan reunion, Van and Ada sexually reconnect, in a way that reenacts Ardis, and then they rapidly repeat the performance. ![]()
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