The Bloody Chamber

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i had, in some way, ceased

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to be her child in becoming his wife

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antique

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service revolver

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opulent male scent of

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leather and spices

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his strange, heavy, almost waxen face

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was not lined by experience

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possessed of that strange, ominous

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calm of a sentient vegetable

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gallery

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of beautiful women

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my cup

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runneth over

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i sensed in myself a potentiality

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for corruption that took my breath away

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i would always

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be lonely

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i smelled the amniotic

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salinity of the ocean

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cut off by the tide

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from the land for half a day

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saint

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cecelia

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mirrors on

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all the walls

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he stripped me…

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as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke

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i was aghast

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to feel myself stirring

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anticipation is the greater

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part of pleasure my little love

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my little nun has found

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the prayer books, has she?

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a dozen husbands

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impaled a dozen brides

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insistent shrilling

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of the telephone

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i clung to him as though

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only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it

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i was not afraid of him

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but of myself

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there i can go, you understand,

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to savour the rare pleasure of imagining myself wifeless

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there is a striking resemblence between

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the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer

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my mother’s spirit

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drove me on

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time was

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his servant too

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though they were blind

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his eyes were singularly sweet

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so rich;

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so well-born

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in my heart, i'd always known

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its lord would be the death of me

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the more i scrubbed the key,

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the more vivid grew the stain

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i must pay the price

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of my new knowledge

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if he had come to me in bed,

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i would have strangled him

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the Russian leather of his scent

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were reverting to the elements of flayed hide and excrement of which it was composed

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the atrocious loneliness

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of that monster

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the necklace that

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prefigures your end

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when i thought of courage,

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i thought of my mother

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sharp as

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childbirth

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avenging

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angel

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the puppet master

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the king, aghast, witnesses the revolt of his pawns

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as if she had been born

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Medusa

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it spares my

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shame