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| 21 | 383 | The men View more quotes about began">began to laugh, and clap. |
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| 21 | 380 | Please! Please! Else we will suffer the torments of the neglected slave! Please be merciful! We are already starved for the touch of masters!" "You are slaves," said a man. |
| 21 | 381 | "Move as slaves!" "Please, no!" wept a slave. |
| 21 | 382 | "Move," said Tyrtaios. |
| 21 | 383 | The men began to laugh, and clap. |
| 21 | 384 | They moved well. |
| 21 | 385 | How beautiful are women! I saw their eyes, their expressions, the needfulness in their movements, the subtleties. |
| 21 | 386 | What fires men have set to burn in the bellies of slaves! Is it cruel, I wondered, to have done this to them, to make them the helpless victims of such powerful, frequently recurrent needs? I supposed not, as it makes them the richest and fullest of women, the most helpless and authentic of women, the most irreparably female of women, more a woman than a free woman, afflicted by her inhibitions, locked within her conventions, the prescriptions of her society, can dream. |