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| 11 | 948 | The kaska player, alert to this, reduced the volume of his drumming, and then, five View more quotes about times">times, smote hard upon the taut skin, almost like the cracking of a whip, to which I reacted, turning to one side and another, as though such a disciplinary device had been sounded menacingly, on all sides, in my vicinity, and then I continued to dance, helpless before the will of masters. |
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| 11 | 945 | I examined in dismay the beads about my neck, the cords at my waist, my barbarically adorned ankles and wrists. |
| 11 | 946 | I touched my thighs, and lifted my arms, looking at them, and put my hands upon my body, as though I could not believe that it was unclothed. |
| 11 | 947 | I pretended to shrink down within myself, to desire to crouch down, and conceal and cover my nudity, but then I straightened up, fearfully, as though I had heard commands to desist in such absurdities, and then I extended my hands to the sides, to various sides, as though pleading for mercy, to be released from the imperatives of the music, but then reacted, drawing back, as though I had seen the sight of whips or weapons. |
| 11 | 948 | The kaska player, alert to this, reduced the volume of his drumming, and then, five times, smote hard upon the taut skin, almost like the cracking of a whip, to which I reacted, turning to one side and another, as though such a disciplinary device had been sounded menacingly, on all sides, in my vicinity, and then I continued to dance, helpless before the will of masters. |
| 11 | 949 | Then, as the dance continued, I signified by expression and movement my curiosity and fascination with what I was being forced to do, and the responses of my body, reconciled now to its reality, helplessly obedient now to the music. |
| 11 | 950 | I am a basically shy person. |
| 11 | 951 | But now I was dancing such things as shyness, and timidity, and fear, and curiosity, and fascination, as roles. |