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but also very personal figure of the mother
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and the maternal.
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So the white bags,
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this is an image of the breast.
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We have this fear of the horrible white liquid,
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as if milk were going to drown him.
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So the threat embodied by the mother
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who will beat her own son
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unconscious is embodied in that
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fevered vision of the bags like the
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full udders of cows.
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So this novel, this autobiography,