Svetlana from Tashkent
Character
Treatment-therapy maiden, Tashkent by branding if not necessarily by passport. Chosen by Dives and obliged to maintain professional composure while the client sheds.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…and protocol positively Ruritanian in its imbecility, and being suffered to choose between those ministering maidens moderately tall Svetlana from Tashkent, withal Russian (or at any rate Volga Tartar), and the undeniably diminutive raven-haired Supavadi of Mueang Chiang Rai, selected the first of these. Svetlana was in no manner displeased to be his choice; nor, conversely, was Supavadi entirely sanguine at her rejection, for each had purposed by diverse secret…