Laura answers.

[Mark Kohut]

Well-Chosen Quotes from GR and:

"This is how it's done here - the heady mixture of sex, commerce and
power - sanctified in a way that brothels clearly aren't, can never
be. The link between master and slave is sex-slave, Austra's telling
him. When in Rome ...

And with this sex-slave-power-commerce trip going on in a sea-port
populated by rowdy sailors, how can it not affect even the wives and
daughters?"

Laura


This is a well-said, as usual, way I would read it too...to me most of
the scenes in M & D are very like many of the scenes in GR....that
irreal, idea-containing ahistorical novel.
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