The House of Stairs (2010)
“I could question that. He never knew Bell, he never knew the archjuggler in the circus of the world. It is a strange thing the conclusions we draw not from the impressions we are given but from the impressions we take. I took it for granted Bell was experienced, sophisticated, richly traveled in all kinds of sexual regions, as streetwise as could be, as tough. Yet she never told me so. Did she act these things, or did I choose to see her as acting? Certainly she told me she had been at art scho...ol, had lovers long before she went there, grew up fatherless and with a strange mother who had been a concert singer. Her maiden name, of course, had been Mark’s name, Henryson.
I reached a conclusion: life with Silas had compounded her distaste for men. Even while with him, married to him, she had turned to women as lovers, probably a series of women. And after he was dead and she was free she was able to indulge her love for her own sex. I thought it likely that this accounted, more than a need to be with her mother, for those absences of hers and that disappearance that took place soon after our meeting in Admetus’s house.MoreLess
I reached a conclusion: life with Silas had compounded her distaste for men. Even while with him, married to him, she had turned to women as lovers, probably a series of women. And after he was dead and she was free she was able to indulge her love for her own sex. I thought it likely that this accounted, more than a need to be with her mother, for those absences of hers and that disappearance that took place soon after our meeting in Admetus’s house.MoreLess
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