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| 34 | 60 | The designs of View more quotes about nature">nature facilitate the flourishing of species; her denial paves the way to the arctics of degeneration and extinction. |
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| 34 | 57 | She looks up at him, and he looks down upon her. |
| 34 | 58 | She is on her knees, as both understand is fitting, and he, as both too recognize is fitting, is standing. |
| 34 | 59 | These postures and attitudes are articulately symbolic, speaking in their way, as you must now understand, within the context of civilization, of the decrees and orderings of nature, in their way recalling even the mute, insistent declarations of gravitation and combustion. |
| 34 | 60 | The designs of nature facilitate the flourishing of species; her denial paves the way to the arctics of degeneration and extinction. |
| 34 | 61 | In his hand is the whip, his, held to her. |
| 34 | 62 | The whip, of course, is a symbol of the mastery, and its discipline, and authority. |
| 34 | 63 | In kissing it, and licking it, deferentially, lingeringly, she expresses her understanding of it, and what it stands for. |