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  1. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.
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  2. Angela Carter _ The Infernal Desire Machines

    It was an event of too massive arbitrariness for me to comprehend but, as the rain-washed light fell more and more wistfully on the gigantic tip of sandstone that killed my bearded lady, my reptilian friend, my shooting star and my blind philosopher, I became most deeply aware of mortality.
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  3. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    To obtain his precious orgasm, the libertine must now hunt it down single-mindedly through seas of blood and excrement.
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  4. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.
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  5. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force.
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  6. Angela Carter _ The Bloody Chamber and Other

    Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them...
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  7. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Repression is Justine's whole being - repression of sex, of anger and of her own violence; the repressions demanded of Christian virtue, in fact.
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  8. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    One of Sade's singularities is that he offers an absolutely sexualised view of the world, a sexualisation that permeates everything, much as his atheism does and, since he is not a religious man but a political man, he treats the facts of female sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality.
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  9. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. Her freedom will be a condition of personal privilege that deprives those on which she exercises it of her own freedom. The most extreme kind of this deprivation is murder. These women murder.
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  10. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    Nothing exercises such power over the imagination as the nature of sexual relationships, and the pornographer has it in his power to become a terrorist of the imagination, a sexual guerilla whose purpose is to overturn our most basic notions of these relations, to reinstitute sexuality as a primary mode of being rather than a specialised area of vacation from being and to show that the everyday meetings in the marriage bed are parodies of their own pretensions, that the freest unions may contain the seeds of the worst exploitation."
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  11. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise

    Therefore pornography must always have the false simplicity of fable; the abstraction of the flesh involves the mystification of the flesh. As it reduces the actors in the sexual drama to instruments of pure function, so the pursuit of pleasure becomes in itself a metaphysical quest. The pornographer, in spite of himself, becomes a metaphysician when he states that the friction of penis in orifice is the supreme matter of the world, for which the world is well lost; as he says so, the world vanishes.
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  12. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise

    Pornography, like marriage and the fictions of romantic love, assists the process of false universalising. Its excesses belong to that timeless, locationless area outside history, outside geography, where fascist art is born. Nevertheless, there is no question of an aesthetics of pornography. It can never be art for art's sake. Honourably enough, it is always art with work to do.
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