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suffering and distortion that we see in this novel.
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And, just to remind you of that catalog,
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I just want to look at page 43 in your edition, 47 in mine.
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I noted that a lot of the body parts that we see in her prose
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are parts of women's bodies.
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Well, the sense of the body as grotesque goes beyond
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just dismemberment.
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There's a general ugliness of women that pertains in the novel.
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And if you look on that page, about in the middle,
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this is Enoch describing his foster mother:
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This woman was hard to get along with. She wasn't old.
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I reckon she was 40 year old, but she sho was ugly.