The Bloody Chamber
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- Created on: 21-02-15 12:14
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- The Bloody Chamber
- 'Are you sure you love him?'
- 'I dropped the key'
- ''as if to tell me the eye of God - his eye was upon me'
- 'I retrieved the key from the pool of blood'
- 'I dropped the key'
- 'I'm sure I want to marry him'
- 'I took the forbidden key'
- 'that magic place, the fairy castle whose walls were made of foam'
- 'our destination, my destiny'
- 'there is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer'
- 'whiff of the opulent male scent of leather and spices'
- 'he was blind of course; but young, with a gentle mouth'
- 'they looked like the trumpets of the angels of death'
- 'he was blind of course; but young, with a gentle mouth'
- 'I was 17 and knew nothing of the world'
- 'and he disgusted me'
- 'my mothers spirit drove me on'
- 'mechanically, I began to play but my fingers were stiff and shaking'
- 'and he disgusted me'
- 'married three times within my own brief lifetime'
- 'a choker of rubies, two inches wide'
- 'I caught sight of myself in the mirror'
- 'the more I scrubbed the key the more vivid grew the stain'
- 'a dozen appealing girls reflected in as many mirrors'
- 'the more I scrubbed the key the more vivid grew the stain'
- 'I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption'
- 'my breasts showed through the flimsy stuff'
- 'the next day we were married'
- 'into marriage, into exile'
- 'this lovely prison'
- 'The secrets of Pandora's box; but he had given me the box himself knowing I must learn the secret'
- 'mirrors on all the walls'
- 'I knew I had behaved exactly according to his desires'
- 'a formal disrobing of the bride, a ritual from the brothel'
- 'mother I have gold bath taps'
- 'I forced myself to be seductive'
- 'bare as a lamb chop'
- 'I asserted myself'
- 'he closed my legs like a book'
- 'A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides'
- 'I shivered to think of that'
- 'he made me put on my chocker/
- 'not the key to my heart, rather the key to my enfer'
- 'the whizz of that heavy sword'
- 'at last a file marked: personal'
- 'not the key to my heart, rather the key to my enfer'
- 'He kissed me and laid his hand imperatively upon my breast'
- 'the puppet master, open-mouthed, wide eyed'
- 'his dolls break free of their strings'
- 'the puppet master, open-mouthed, wide eyed'
- 'Are you sure you love him?'
- 'a choker of rubies, two inches wide'
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