Story of the Eye

religion-and-sex

• he spurted his come on the hosts in the ciborium, which Simone held in front of him while masturbating him

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• a very beautiful young brunette stepped out of the confessional, her face pale and enraptured, her eyes white and vacant

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erotic-as-power

• dressed as Spanish priests, wearing priestly cloaks, and manfully puffing on big cigars; Simone in the costume of a Seville seminarist

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• the mare gallops dragging a huge, vile bundle of bowels between her thighs — Simone's heart throbbed fastest

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mortality

• the death of the solar monster was performed cleanly; the bull staggered to its knees with the uncertainty of a drunkard, collapsed, and died

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• Bataille believed 'the truth of eroticism is tragic' — the ultimate identification of sex and death

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