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rganymede (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rganymede) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank, |
Okay, so deborahkla kept posting the same cp'd reply to all the people horrified by the line "I will bite into your clitoris":
You're taking Miller's work far too literally. Henry Miller loved and respected women and knew his way around a clit. He was using the expression metaphorically. When one person says to another that they'd like to "rip off your clothes" or "bite you hard" it doesn't mean they're actually going to do so. In this passage Miller was trying to express the aching desperation of his passion.
Uhhh... Even if I take "I will bite into your clitoris" metaphorically, it's still horrible. Metaphorically, all I'm getting from it is: "I hate your ladyparts and want to damage them" or maybe even "Your ladyparts make me really horny, which pisses me off enough to want to damage them" or even just "I hate all women and want to hurt them for being women, in a way that can only be used on women".
The passage as a whole is all about harming Tania, with not a single word to even indicate the narrator wants her to get off from all this. Half the passage is about this Sylvester guy (who he wants to hurt indirectly by fucking Tania).
People with English degrees help me out, because I do not have the necessary qualifications to understand this! Is Miller really saying that Tania is Jesus, and they're both in Purgatory? A Purgatory of terrible sex scenes?
You're taking Miller's work far too literally. Henry Miller loved and respected women and knew his way around a clit. He was using the expression metaphorically. When one person says to another that they'd like to "rip off your clothes" or "bite you hard" it doesn't mean they're actually going to do so. In this passage Miller was trying to express the aching desperation of his passion.
Uhhh... Even if I take "I will bite into your clitoris" metaphorically, it's still horrible. Metaphorically, all I'm getting from it is: "I hate your ladyparts and want to damage them" or maybe even "Your ladyparts make me really horny, which pisses me off enough to want to damage them" or even just "I hate all women and want to hurt them for being women, in a way that can only be used on women".
The passage as a whole is all about harming Tania, with not a single word to even indicate the narrator wants her to get off from all this. Half the passage is about this Sylvester guy (who he wants to hurt indirectly by fucking Tania).
People with English degrees help me out, because I do not have the necessary qualifications to understand this! Is Miller really saying that Tania is Jesus, and they're both in Purgatory? A Purgatory of terrible sex scenes?
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