For one thing, I believe that Clare, when she says ‘happiness’, means simply and solely ‘sexual happiness’. Partly because women like Clare never use the word ‘happiness’ in any other sense. But also because I never heard Clare talk about the ‘right’ to any other kind. She was rather leftist in her politics, and would have been scandalised if anyone had defended the actions of a ruthless man-eating tycoon on the ground that his happiness consisted in making money and he was pursuing his happiness. She was also a rabid teetotaller; I never heard her excuse an alcoholic because he was happy when
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