The Bloody Chamber Stories
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- The Bloody Chamber Stories
- Bloody Chamber
- Marquis
- "At once he close my legs like a book"
- "my little nun has found the prayerbooks"
- "baby mustn't play with grown up toys"
- "a dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides"
- "my little nun has found the prayerbooks"
- "He made me put my choker on"
- "give it me back, whore" (the ring)
- "i could see the dark, leonine shape of his head"
- "but sometimes he seemed to me like a lily"
- "that are white. And stain you"
- "the face lay underneath this mask"
- "but sometimes he seemed to me like a lily"
- "not the key to my heart, rather the key to my enfer"
- "the lustratory ritual and the ceremonial robing; after that, the sacrifice"
- "At once he close my legs like a book"
- The Girl
- "I'm sure i want to marry him"
- "i was only a little girl, i did not understand"
- "a choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat"
- "i found that i was trembling. My breath came thickly"
- "i began to shudder like a racehorse before a race" (fear/arousal)
- "when i had first seen my flesh in his eyes"
- "i had been infinitely dishevelled by the loss of my virginity"
- "i found that i was trembling. My breath came thickly"
- "i longed for him. And he disgusted me"
- "I'm sure i want to marry him"
- Mother
- "are you sure you love him"
- defiantly beggared herself for love"
- "you never saw such a wild thing as my mother"
- "her skirt tucked around her waist... clasped my father's service revolver"
- "took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head"
- "she borrowed old Dobbin from a bemused farmer"
- "her skirt tucked around her waist... clasped my father's service revolver"
- "you never saw such a wild thing as my mother"
- defiantly beggared herself for love"
- "my eagle feature indomitable"
- "shot a man eating tiger with her own hand"
- "are you sure you love him"
- Marquis
- The Company of Wolves
- The Girl
- "who'd knitted her a red shawl that, today has the ominous if brilliant look of blood on snow"
- "she is an unbroken egg' she is a sealed vessel"
- "took of her scarlet shawl, the colour of poppies, the colour of sacrifices, the colour of her menses..."
- "she is an unbroken egg' she is a sealed vessel"
- "Her practiced hand sprang to the handle of her knife"
- "The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat..."
- "this young man had a remarkable object in his pocket"
- "The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat..."
- "she has been too much loved to ever feel scared"
- "who'd knitted her a red shawl that, today has the ominous if brilliant look of blood on snow"
- The Wolf
- "so little flesh on them that you could count the starveling ribs through their pelts"
- "the rime of saliva on the grizzled chops"
- "the lean and famished"
- "the wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's cunning as he is ferocious"
- "wavering howl, has for all it's fearful resonance, some inherent sadnesss"
- "devastating eyes as red as a wound"
- The G-Ma
- "throws her apron and then her bible at him"
- "The grandfather clock ticks away her eroding time"
- "he burned the inedible hair..wrapped the bones up in a napkin"
- The Girl
- The Snow Child
- The Count
- "i want a girl as white/red as snow/blood"
- "weeping"
- "thrust his virile member in to the dead girl"
- "the count picked up the rose...handed it to his wife"
- "ii'll buy you new gloves"
- The Countess
- "how shall i rid of her"
- "dive in and fetch it for me"
- "now the countess was as bare as a bone"
- "reined in her stamping mare"
- "it bites!"
- the girl
- "pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls."
- "then the girl began to melt"
- setting
- "midwinter-invincible, immaculate
- "fresh snow had already fallen"
- The Count
- The Lady of the House of Love
- setting
- juliets tomb
- winding staircase
- juliets tomb
- the girl
- her claws and teeth have been sharpened on centuries of corpses
- a child dressing up in her mothers clothes
- she counts out the tarot cards...
- Symbols/imagery
- the tarot always show the same configuration
- heavy scent of roses
- the flower did not seem to be quite dead
- dark, fanged rose i plucked from between my thighs
- the flower did not seem to be quite dead
- isolation
- she is the last bud of the poison tree
- he will learn to shudder in the trenches
- setting
- Bloody Chamber
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