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She whispered, 'Love.'"
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Now, the problem with that is that answer;
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it's a verb and a noun.
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And Menelaus doesn't know how to take it,
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so here it becomes a verb:
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He held her fast; she took him willy-nilly to her;
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I feel her yet, one endless instant,
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Menelaus was no more, never has been since.
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This is like that moment of erotic play with Magda for Ambrose.
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It eradicates identity, eradicates sense of self. It's gone forever,
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and you can see the change in
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pronouns. "She took him willy-nilly to her."