The Bloody Chamber

Question 1

Away from Paris…

Answer 1

Away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother’s apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage.

Question 2

When he put the gold…

Answer 2

When he put the gold band on my finger, I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife.

Question 4

I’m in the….

Answer 4

I’m in the demoythologising business

Question 5

I am all for putting…..

Answer 5

I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode

Question 6

I am interested in myths [..]…

Answer 6

I am interested in myths [..] just because they are extraordinary lies designed to make people unfree

Question 7

The monsters and princesses….

Answer 7

The monsters and princesses lose their places in the old scripts, and cross forbidden boundary lines

Question 8

To be the object of desire….

Answer 8

To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive.

Question 9

My dark….

Answer 9

My dark new born curiosity

Question 10

One is not born….

Answer 10

One is not born a woman, one becomes one

Question 11

Next in the fated….

Answer 11

Next in the dated sisterhood of his wives

Question 12

The tiger will never lie….

Answer 12

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers

Question 13

She is a marvellous….

Answer 13

She is a marvellous machine, the most delicately balanced system of cords and pulleys in the world

Question 14

Her musical box…

Answer 14

Her musical box ran down until the notes separated themselves out of tone

Question 15

My nervous fingers….

Answer 15

My nervous fingers ripped, petal by petal

Question 17

Unguessable

Answer 17

Unguessable country of marriage

Question 18

When he put the gold band

Answer 18

When he put the gold band on my finger,I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife

Question 19

I was forced always to mimic

Answer 19

I was forced to always mimic surprise so that he would not be disappointed

Question 20

How is the marquee described in the bloody chamber?

Answer 20

Male scent of leather and spices.

Question 21

My dark

Answer 21

My dark newborn curiosity

Question 22

This white rose are natural out of season, that now my

Answer 22

This white rose, unnatural, out of season, but now my nervous fingers ripped, petal by petal, apart as my father magnificently concluded the Korea he had made of catastrophe

Question 23

Meanwhile, my double

Answer 23

Meanwhile by double continue to power the air, emitting her juggling tune but, as it turned out, she was not in exhaustible

Question 24

Who has a metal heart?

Answer 24

The maid and the Tigers bride

Question 26

He dragged himself closer and closer to me

Answer 26

He dragged himself closer and closer to me, until I felt the heart velvet of his head against my hand, dan tongue, a bra of a sandpaper he will lick the skin off me

Question 27

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin

Answer 27

And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of our life in the world

Question 28

My earrings turned back to water

Answer 28

My earrings turned back to water and trickle down my shoulders. I shrugged the straps off my beautiful fur.

Question 29

You stepped between the first trees, and then you are no longer in the open air

Answer 29

You stepped between the first trees and the year were no longer in the open air. The wood swallowed you up.

Question 30

The two notes of the song of a bird rose on the still air, as if my girlish

Answer 30

The two notes of the song of a bird rose on the still air, as if my girlish and delicious loneliness I’ve been made into a sound.

Question 31

Yet when he shakes out those two clear notes from his bird call

Answer 31

When he shakes out those two clear notes from his bird, call I come back any other trusting thing that purchased on the quick of his wrist

Question 32

His touch both consoles

Answer 32

His touch both consoles me and devastates me

Question 33

Eat me

Answer 33

Eat me drink me thirsty conquered goblin wood I go back and back to him to have his fingers stripped the tattooed skin away and clothe me in his dress of water this garment that drenches me its slithering odour it’s capacity for drowning

Question 34

But in his innocence

Answer 34

But in his innocence, he never knew he might be the death of me

Question 36

And each strike of his tongue ripped off

Answer 36

And each strike of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin or the skins of a life in the world

Question 37

Puppetmaster open mouth wide-eyed

Answer 37

Puppetmaster opened mouth wide eyed impertinent at the last saw his dolls break free of their strings

Question 38

I go back and back

Answer 38

I go back and back to him to have his finger stripped the chatted skin away and clothe me and his dress of water is Garmin trenches mean it’s slithering it’s capacity for drowning

Question 39

My nervous fingers

Answer 39

My nervous finger is ripped pedal by pedal petal

Question 40

Ceased to be

Answer 40

Ceased to be her child in becoming his wife

Question 41

My earrings turned back to water

Answer 41

My earrings turned back to water and trickle down my shoulders. I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

Question 42

I loved him with all my heart

Answer 42

I loved him with all my heart, and yet I had no wish to join the whistling congregation he kept in his cages