VLVL DL & Frenesi

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Dec 12 15:02:33 CST 2003


on 12/12/03 11:47 PM, Terrance wrote:

> They were friends, they used to run together ... and it seem to me that
> they were much more than just friends, that DL has "been with" Frenesi
> and that is one of the reasons why DL temporizes and tap dances and
> walks on egg shells from time to time during her narrative.

    ... With her bare thighs Frenesi gripped the leather hips of her
    benefactor, finding that she'd also pressed her face against
    the fragrant leather back -- she never thought it might be a
    woman she hugged this way.
       Biker rapture for sure. (117)

    ... But the shock had been different for DL -- it was in finding out
    that he [i.e. Brock] loved Frenesi but did not possess her, and was
    driven to fetishism in faraway countries as his only outlet, helpless
    to change -- obsessed, though it gagged her to admit it, as DL. (141)

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