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until they hold our sins and birth a male-made kind of redemption. Bataille
escapes from his past in her shape, Nabokov revels in an uncomfortable moment
with his literary fellows, and Larsson frees her, but none of these men show us
her insides, perhaps because they cannot imagine them. If she had any, maybe
she would reject her masters and then where would the sinners find recovery?
Maybe because the figure of a girl is the prototypical vulnerable soul and if you
need to lay bare what is inside you, there is no better voice than that of a girl
child built in a society that sees her as disposable in the first place unless she
serves a male purpose.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Kim Idol
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