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its clamoring anymore, could no longer marshal the wit,
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the strength, the patience, the illusion, the irony,
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the ardor, the egotism, the resilience or the toughness or
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the shrewdness or the falseness, the dissembling,
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the dual being, the erotic professionalism to
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deal with its array of misleading and contradictory meanings.
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So, sex always comes along with those meanings,
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and Nathan could not separate out the two in the way that Coleman
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succeeds in doing with Faunia, in finding an illiterate woman.
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I think it's her illiteracy, in a sense, that enables
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the separation of sex from language.
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But that "mania to repeat the act" looks a lot,