each whore—even the most infested and downtrodden, who never opened her mouth without screaming obscenities, and who accepted seven or eight men’s liquids, night after night, all her orifices reddened and tumescent from use and abuse—possessed beneath her skull a brain indistinguishable from Volta’s, or that of Flammarion, Immanuel Kant, or Leibniz, and through it she had access to logical space, to the crystal sphere of fixed stars, to the knowledge of good and evil only possessed by the archangels. Up from their flesh chafed by males and females, full of bruises and excoriations, up from
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