Friday, April 16, 2010

Musil

...when she had no particular reason for being the opposite, she was entirely respectable.
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To be sure, if one is bent on calling it prostitution when a woman does not, as is customary, give her entire person for money, but only her body, then Leona did occasionally go in for prostitution.

- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

от себя добавлю: последняя цитата показывает, насколько Музиль тривиален. даже по тем временам. ведь уже была написана Мадам Бовари и Анна Каренина и Преступление и наказание в конце концов...

"...она неделями отказывала в близости Вальтеру, если он играл Вагнера."

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