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Pastimes : The Literary Sauna (or Tomes in Towels)
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To: Rambi who wrote (412)8/28/2001 1:06:53 PM
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I think X is right, that her control is her madness, though my feeling about it is that it's less bleak than that. This feels right to me:

But more like the trapped animal chewing off his own leg to be free?
An action that from the outside appears terrible and strange, but is actually a logical means of survival?

Maybe 'logical' is putting it too strongly. Maybe it was the only way open to her. Or maybe it wasn't a choice but was still a rebirth, since it was the way in which she deciphered the meaning of the pattern in the sulphurous paper and tore her way out of it.

And it seems that in the last line she is saying to women, "Sisters, you'll have to creep over him (the patriarchal male) every time!"
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