on sadomasochism in p's fiction (sorta) : Iris Murdoch to Brigid Brophy

[Mark Kohut]

It was tortured: sadomasochistic in an emotional sense, if not a
physical one (“You are not a true classical sadomasochist like me,”
noted Murdoch, having confessed that she had wanted to be beaten by
those who interested her. “You are just an abnormal perverted one.”)
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