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The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion.
Sexual act
girls in full bloom, with crudely lipsticked mouths, and youths who chased the girls, and swollen waddling women who showed you what the girls would be like in ten years' time,
Note for guys
What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one.
Possessing old things
in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
Struggle and fight
'You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
She. Rebel.
Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that
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