Atdtda23: [46.2ii] Echoes, 657

Paul Nightingale isread at btinternet.com
Wed Dec 19 23:04:30 CST 2007


[657.17-18] ... often finding herself late at night on hands and knees up on
Calvary Hill being penetrated by a small queue of tunnel hands, often two at
a time ...

And so to ...

[657.24-26] ... obliged by seizing her with careful brutality, pushing her
face among some pillows and tearing some rather high-priced underlinen.

Cf. the ménage-a-trois at Four Corners, on 269:

Then rotated her all four different ways. Her small features pressed into
the dirt, the blood-red dirt.





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