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| 3 | 855 | I View more quotes about wondered">wondered, wildly, if I had felt it in former lives. |
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| 3 | 852 | I wanted to scream, but I could only whimper, plaintively. |
| 3 | 853 | The whip, it seemed to me, strangely enough, somehow, was not a stranger to me. |
| 3 | 854 | I seemed to know it. |
| 3 | 855 | I wondered, wildly, if I had felt it in former lives. |
| 3 | 856 | Something about it seemed almost a terrifying memory. |
| 3 | 857 | Could I be remembering it, I wondered, from a sunlit shelf in Memphis, from a patio in Athens, from a post in Rome or a ring, cords on my wrists, in a women's quarters in Bokara, Basra, Samarkand or Baghdad? Had I felt it before, somewhere, or in many places, and never, even through a succession of lives, forgotten it? No, I told myself, that would be quite unlikely. |
| 3 | 858 | On the other hand, I had little doubt that many women in the past, in such places, and in thousands of others, had had their behavior corrected with perfection by just such instruments and their kin, such as the switch, the strap, the bastinado. |