AtdTDA: 38 p. 1066 La Jarretière

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          Dave Monroe:
          "Do you know what a fetish is?  Something of a woman 
          which gives pleasure but is not a woman.  A shoe, a 
          locket ... une jarretiere. You are the same, not real but 
          an object of pleasure." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. ii, p. 404)

          "Do you only lie passive then, like an object?  Of course 
          you do.  It  is what you are.  Une fetiche."
          (V., Ch. 14, Sec. ii, p. 406)

While watching  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK64sTi4mKc   
—a performance of the sacrificial dance from The Rite of Spring 
with the original choreography, staging and costumes—I was struck
by how the sacrificial  virgin spent most of the dance stuck in a 
pose, a fetish devoid of action, inert.