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Marguerite Duras · 1984
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What this book knows
Desire and shame are inseparable in colonial Indochina, where a girl's erotic power is real but never fully her own.
desire
He's torn off the dress, throws it down. She, slow, patient, draws him to her and starts to undress him. Let me do it. She wants to do it.
DURAS-TL-RC-026His body wanted nothing more to do with the body that was about to go away, to betray. I can't make love to you any more.
DURAS-TL-RC-070erotic-as-power
My desire obeys my elder brother, rejects my lover. In my brother's presence he becomes an unmentionable outrage, a cause of shame.
DURAS-TL-RC-035I tell him I like the idea of his having many women, of my being one of them, indistinguishable. He understands. Our expressions change, caught in evil and death.
DURAS-TL-RC-028He'd implored his father to let him keep her, this passion, this madness, this infatuation with the little white girl, just once in his life.
DURAS-TL-RC-054shame
She'll kill me if she finds out the truth. He says he understands what my mother means, this dishonor. He says, I'm Chinese.
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