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“As had happened before, the image of Bruno above her flattened over the image of Bruno holding the gun to her head. And as before, Séverine felt a bitterness tinged with a sense of conquest, as well as an equal sense this was in fact the most disarmed she’d ever been, and if he still wanted to kill her, now was the time.”

“She wondered if that was the point of Bruno giving her this book, to make her feel guilty, a first step in persuading her to sympathize with his crazy crusade. Séverine circled the last sentence, which urged comrades to change the world and “set afoot a new man.” With a smirk, she wrote, Me after you brainwash me.”

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