Yeah, there is no reason why a dog should be mentioned in connection with a sex scene. Just, ew.
But do you not see the huge clomping metaphor bounding upstairs? She's afraid of the animal! The raw physicality of sex, noisy and slurpy and messy repulses her, unnatural thing she is with her Jacobin politics and her art classes. If she was a real woman she'd fancy Danton. Rawr
Subtext: All left wing revolutionary women are repressed.
Either that or she's supposed to be ugly.
*Looks at portraits* She's better looking than Camille, who this novel appears to have turned into a 900 page L'oréal commercial.
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Date: Sunday, 30 May 2010 09:24 (UTC)But do you not see the huge clomping metaphor bounding upstairs? She's afraid of the animal! The raw physicality of sex, noisy and slurpy and messy repulses her, unnatural thing she is with her Jacobin politics and her art classes.
If she was a real woman she'd fancy Danton. RawrSubtext: All left wing revolutionary women are repressed.
Either that or she's supposed to be ugly.
*Looks at portraits* She's better looking than Camille, who this novel appears to have turned into a 900 page L'oréal commercial.