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| 3 | 77 | I was standing View more quotes about straight">straight, but perhaps too stiffly, too immobilely, not subtly in movement, in my breathing, the movements of my shoulders, the tiny movements of my head, almost imperceptible, but contributing to the impression of a profoundly alive body, one richly latent with the promise of incredible responsiveness. |
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| 3 | 74 | Most cruelly I resented the laughter. |
| 3 | 75 | At that time I had not been brought by strict diet and enforced exercise to optimum measurements. |
| 3 | 76 | Perhaps, too, at that time, I was not standing as well as I might have. |
| 3 | 77 | I was standing straight, but perhaps too stiffly, too immobilely, not subtly in movement, in my breathing, the movements of my shoulders, the tiny movements of my head, almost imperceptible, but contributing to the impression of a profoundly alive body, one richly latent with the promise of incredible responsiveness. |
| 3 | 78 | But mostly I suspect I was found wanting in subtle psychological dimensions, available to the acute observer as a consequence of almost subliminal cues. |
| 3 | 79 | These matters are conveyed by subtleties of facial expression and physical demeanor. |
| 3 | 80 | I was a girl raised in a culture predicated on the denial of primate biological realities, a girl from a world in which hypothetically cogent animals denied, denounced and hysterically strove to suppress their own animality, a world in whose social insanity even sexuality had now come to be politically suspect. |