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| 9 | 295 | Nudity, of View more quotes about course">course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch. |
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| 9 | 292 | The female, of course, need not be fully bound. |
| 9 | 293 | Something as simple as a collar may suffice. |
| 9 | 294 | The point is that she knows herself his. |
| 9 | 295 | Nudity, of course, is also helpful, as it dramatically increases her sense of vulnerability, and then every inch of her skin and body is exposed, and aware, and alive to even the slightest breath of air, the tiniest fold of a cloth surface, to the least and gentlest touch. |
| 9 | 296 | Briefly did I ponder such things. |
| 9 | 297 | Are they truly so esoteric, I wondered, a message lurking in some ancient palimpsest, propositions expressed in secret, forgotten languages, a doctrine concealed within strata of meticulous encipherments, so deep as to be fathomed only after years of study, so subtle as to be detected only by a gifted, trained cognoscenti, introduced into a final sanctuary of at last unveiled mysteries? I did not think so. |
| 9 | 298 | I thought rather the palimpsest was within us, the languages not so much forgotten as sometimes denied, that one dealt here indeed with deep and profound matters, but not really with obscure encipherments; rather one was here dealing with a doctrine written indelibly and ineradicably, indisputably and irrecusably, in the blood and heart of a species, a doctrine that spelled out the fundamental words of human nature, words that explained us to ourselves. |