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| 80 | 174 | How frightful if she were to be View more quotes about thought">thought of in terms of it, her body, that embarrassing, troubling thing so appropriately concealed, rather than, say, in terms of her mind and personhood, or, perhaps, her clear, fine features, if her veil were to become disarranged, inadvertently. |
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| 80 | 171 | She may even be embarrassed by it, or ashamed of it. |
| 80 | 172 | She may fear to show it. |
| 80 | 173 | Certainly she may conceal it. |
| 80 | 174 | How frightful if she were to be thought of in terms of it, her body, that embarrassing, troubling thing so appropriately concealed, rather than, say, in terms of her mind and personhood, or, perhaps, her clear, fine features, if her veil were to become disarranged, inadvertently. |
| 80 | 175 | But beneath those robes and veils her body is there, embarrassing and troubling or not, in all its loveliness, as though waiting for its exposure or disrobing. |
| 80 | 176 | And surely she knows it is she, ready to flame alive in its exposure, as much as any other aspect of her, her mind, her features, her emotions, the needs of her belly, all such things which constitute the wholeness of her. |
| 80 | 177 | Does she, enclosed in those ornate blockades, wonder from time to time what it might be to feel a man's hands upon those stiff enwrapments, and wonder what it might be to feel them ripped from her, abruptly, imperiously, and feel the sudden flash of air upon lovely, startled skin? Does she wonder what it would be to be a whole female, loving her sex, and rejoicing in it? In any event the bodies of slaves are commonly well, if not entirely, exposed. |