The Bloody Chamber

Sex:BC ' he stripped me, gourmand that he was,...'

' as if he were ********* the leaves off an artichoke'

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Sex:BC ' I longed for him...'

'And he disgusted me.'

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Sex:PIB ' shows him the target, he displays the dart...'

'scores an instant bullseye'

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Sex:EK ' he lays me down on his bed of rustling straw...'

' where i lie at the mercy of his huge hands'

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Sex:EK ' he strips me to my last nakendess...'

'like a skinned rabbit'

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Sex:EK 'his touch both...'

'consoles and devastaes me'

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Sex:LHL'I leave you as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose....'

i plucked between my thighs, like a flower laid on a grave.'

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Death/Violence:SC 'The girl pricks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn..'

'Bleeds; screams; falls'

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Death/Violence: SC ' thrust his...'

' virile member into the dead girl'

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Death/Violence:BC ' chocker of rubies...'

'...like an extraordinarily precious slit throat...bright as arterial blood'

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Death/Violence: BC ' on her throat i could see the imprint of his stranglers fingers...'

'The worst thing was, the dead lips smiled'

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Death/Violence:BC '...this child of the land of the vampires...'

'who seemed so newly dead, so full of blood.'

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Death/Violence:BC ' she raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single..'

'irreproachable bullet through my husband's head'

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Death/Violence:EK 'and softly, with hands as gentle as rain,..'

'i shall strangle him'

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Death/Violence:LHL 'end of exile..'

'is the end of being'

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Death/Violence:LHL '...only the fangs'

'and the talons of a beast of prey'

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Death/Violence:W ' with her fathers knife and...'

'slashed off its right forepaw'

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Death/Violence:W 'bloody stump, where her right hand should have been...'

'festering already'

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Death/Violence:W ' beating her old carcass....'

'... and pelted her with stones until she fell down dead'

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Love:CML 'he helplessly fell before her...'

'to kiss her hands'

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Love:CML ' since you left me ...'

' i have been sick.'

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Love:CML ' i could not eat. i am sick and i must die;...'

'but i shall die happy because you have come to say goodbye to me'

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Love:BC ' are you sure you love him?..'

' i'm sure i want to marry him.'

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Love:PIB ' love is desire..'

'sustained by unfulfilment'

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Transformation:CML 'she was learning.....'

'how to be a spoiled child'

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Transformation:CML 'Under their soft transformation..'

'it was no longer a lion in her arms,but a man, a man with an unkempt mane of hair'

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Transformation:BC ' away from Paris..'

'away from girlhood'

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Transformation:TB ' each stroke of his tonge ripped off skin..'

'after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world.'

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Transformation:LHL ' in death, she looked far older,...'

'less beautiful,...fully human'

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Transformation:WA 'locked half and half between such states,..'

'an aborted transformation, an incomplete mystery'

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Corruption of Innocence:SC ' she was the child of his desire..'

'and the countess hated her'

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Corruption of Innocence:CML' his girl'child, his pet..'

'the one white rose she wanted.'

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Corruption of Innocence:BC ' i sensed in myself ..'

'a potential for corruption that took my breath away.'

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Corruption of Innocence: BC 'the lillies i always associate with him;..'

'that are white. And stain you.'

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Corruption of Innocence:LHL 'special quality of virginity ...'

'... ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia.'

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Corruption of Innocence: LHL 'so delicate and damned..'

'poor thing. Quite damned'

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Corruption of Innocence:CW ' She is an unbroken egg;..'

' she is a sealed vessel.'

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Corruption of Innocence:WA ' suprised to be bleeding again..'

'..punctuality that transformed her vague grip on time.'

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Supernatural:SC 'The furs sprang off the Countess’ shoulders and..'

'twined around the naked girl'

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Supernatural:CML 'all the natural laws of the world were held in suspension..'

'where an army of invisibles tenderly waited on her, and she would talk to the lion'

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Supernatural:TB 'nothing human ..'

'lives here'

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Supernatural:LHL 'he has chosen ..'

'the most rational mode of transport'

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Supernatural:TW 'the Devil is ..'

' as real as you or I'

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Supernatural:TW 'squeaking like a ..'

'thing possessed'

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Animal:CML 'head of a lion; mane and mighty paws of a lion,..'

'he reared on his hind legs like an angry lion yet wore a smoking jacket of dull red brocade'

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Animal: TB 'the Beast not much different from any other man..'

' although he wears a mask with a man’s face painted most beautifully on '

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Animal:WA 'nothing about her is human except that she is not a wolf..'

' it is as if the fur she thought she wore had melted into her skin'

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Power:CML 'the leonine apparition shook Beauty’s father until his teeth rattled ..'

' then dropped him sprawling on his knees '

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Power:CML '“I am the beast, and you must call me beast,..'

'while I call you, thief!”'

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Power:TBC 'the pupper-master, open-mouthed, wide-eyed, impotent at the last..'

' saw his dolls break free of their '

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Power:TB 'he was far more frightened ..'

'of me than I was of him'

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Random: BC 'You never saw such a wild thing ..'

'as my mother'

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Random: TB 'The lamb must..'

'learn to run with the tigers'

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Random:CW ' The girl burst out laughing;..'

'she knew she was nobody's meat'

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Random:BC 'the stark torture chamber were the baked rock;..'

'they gleamed as if they were sweating with fright'

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Random:W ' They have cold weather,..'

'they have cold hearts.'

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